ROBERT  ERNEST  COWAN 


Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  Publications 

1908  TRUSTEES'    SERIES  NO.    16 


TRUSTEES'  MANUAL 

OF 

LEGISLATION.     TRUSTS,     FACULTY     ORGANIZATION. 
BY-LAWS.    RULES    OF    ORDER 

AND 

GENERAL  RESOLUTIONS 


FIRST  EDITION 
Conect  to  November  1,  1908 


STANFORD  UNIVERSITY.  CALfrORNIA 

PUBLISHED    BY    THE    UNIVERSITY 

1908 


TRUSTEES'  SERIES 


No.  Date. 

1.  The  Leland  Stanford  Junior   University.      A  pamphlet  of 

information    (No  date) 

2.  Address  of  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  to  the  Board  of  Trus- 

tees   February  11,1  897 

3.  Address  of  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  to  the  Board  of  Trus- 

tees   , June  1 ,  1  897 

4.  Address  of  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  to  the  Board  of  Trus- 

tees   May  31 ,  1 899 

5.  Address  of  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  to  the  Board  of  Trus- 

tees    October  3,   1 902 

6.  Address  on  "The  Right  of  Free  Speech,"  by  Jane  Lathrop 

Stanford  to  the  Board  of  Trustees April  25,  1903 

7.  Petition  filed  in  proceeding  to  establish  and  construe  Uni- 

versity Trusts June  16,  1903 

8.  Decree  in  proceeding  to  establish  and  construe  University 

Trusts July  3,  1903 

9.  Inaugural  address  of  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  as  President 

of  the  Board  of  Trustees July  6,  1 903 

1  0.  Organization  of  the  Faculty  of  the  University .  .  .  March  31,1 904 
I  1 .      Report  of  the  Organization   Committee  of  the  Trustees 

upon  the  Organization  of  the  University  Faculty .... 

March  31,  1904 

1  2.      First  Annual  Report  of  the  President December  31 ,  1905 

1  3.      Second  Annual  Report  of  the  President April  30,  1906 

1  4.      Third  Annual  Report  of  the  President December  31,1 906 

15.  Fourth  Armual  Report  of  the  President December  31,  1907 

1 6.  Trustees'  Manual November  1 ,    1 908 


Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  Publications 

1908  TRUSTEES'    SERIES  NO.    16 


TRUSTEES'  MANUAL 

OF 

LEGISLATION,     TRUSTS,     FACULTY     ORGANIZATION, 
BY-LAWS,    RULES    OF    ORDER 

AND 

GENERAL  RESOLUTIONS 


FIRST   EDITION 
Correct  to  November  I,  1908 


STANFORD  UNIVERSITY.  CAUFORNIA 

PUBLISHED    BY    THE    UNIVERSITY 

1908 


CONTENTS 


PAGE 

I.  Roll  of  Trustees 5-10 

Founders   7 

Present  Trustees    7 

Former  Trustees 8 

Succession  of  Trustees 9 

II.  Legislation   ' 11 

Enabling  Act,  March  9,  1885 13-18 

Constitutional  Amendment,  November  6,   1900 18-19 

Act  conferring  Corporate  Powers,  February  14,  1901 19-20 

Act  concerning  Taxation  and  Tuition  Fees,  February   14, 

?S  1901.  as  amended  March  6,  1907 20-21 

cys  .    . 

'—  Act  providmg  for  determmation  of  validity  and  legal  effect 

>^  of  Grants,  etc.,  February  10,  1903 21-27 

^  Act  providing  for  Resignation  of  Surviving  Founder  and 

EE  Succession  of  Trustees,  March  13,  1903 27-29 

,  Sec.  2295,  P.  C,  concerning  official  state  publications 29 

is: 

^    III.  Decree  determining  the  terms,  validity  and  legal  effect  of  Uni- 

cs  versity  Trusts,  July  3,   1903 31-86 

Founding  Grant,   November   11,   1885 53-64 

Amendments  of  June  1,  1897 64-66 

Amendments  of  May  31,  1899 66-70 

Assumption  of  Corporate  Powers,  November  1.  1901 70-72 

Amendments  of  October   3.    1902 72-81 

Resignation  of  Surviving  Founder,  June   1,   1903 81-83 

General  Provisions  of  Decree,  July  3,  1903 83-86 

IV.  Supplementary   Decree 87-96 

V.  Articles  of  Organization  of  the  Faculty.  IMarch  31,  1904 97-110 

VI.  By-Laws  and  Rules  of  Order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  as  re- 

vised  jNIarch  29,   1907 111-124 

VII.  General  Resolutions  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 125-163 

Index    165 


28847G 


PART  I. 


FOUNDERS 

MEMBERS  OF  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 

FORMER  TRUSTEES 

SUCCESSION   OF   TRUSTEES 


LELAND    STANFORD    JUNIOR    UNIVERSITY. 
Founded  November  11,  1885. 


LELAXI)    S'i\AXI'()Rl).    JR. 
Born  at  SacramciUo.  California,  May  14,  1868. 
Died  at  Florence.  Italv.  .March  13,  1884. 


FOUNDERS. 

LELAXD    STANFORD. 

Born  at  AA'atervliet,  Albany  County,  Xew  York,  March  9, 

1824. 
Died  at  his  Palo  Alto  Residence,  June  21,  1893. 

JAXE    LATHROP   STANFORD. 
Born  at  Albany,  New  York,  August  25,  1828. 
Died  at  Honolulu,  Hawaiian  Islands,  February  28,  1905. 

TRUSTEES 

Constituting  the   Board  of  Trustees  of  the   Leland  Stanford 
Junior  University. 

Name.         Appointment  or  Election.         Acceptance.  TERir. 

Horace    Davis Nov.  11,  1885    Nov.  14,  1885  Life 

*T.  B.  McFarland Nov.  11,  1885    Nov.  14,  1885  Life 

Timothy  Hopkins Nov.  11,  1885    Nov.  14,  1885  Life 

(ieorge  E.  Gray Nov.  11,  1885    Nov.  14.  1885  Life 

Samuel    F.    Leib April  22,  1891    Apr.  23,  1891  .Life 

Joseph  D.  Grant April  22,  1891    Apr.  23,  1891  Life 

Leon    Sloss    Dec.     4,  1891    Dec.  10,  1891  Life 

Charles   G.   Lathrop....Nov.     7,  1893    Nov.     9,  1893  Life 

Frank    Miller Nov.     7,  1893    Nov.  15.  1893  Life 

Thomas  W.  Stanford..Nov.     7,  1893    Dec.  21,  1893  Life 

George    E.    Crothers....Oct.     3.  1902    Oct.     3.  V)02  10  Years 

Whitelaw   Reid Oct.     3,  1902    Oct.  21,  1^)02  10  Years 

William    Babcock Jan.     7,  1905     Jan.     7.  1905  10  Years 

Charles  P.   Eells Jan.     7,  1905     Jan.     7,  1905  10  Years 

Vanderlynn  Stow Nov.    2.1906    Nov.     2,1906  10  Years 

*  Died  Si'ptrnilu'r  l(i,  1!K)S. 


FORMER  TRUSTEES. 

Named  in  Founding  Grant,  November  11,   1885. 

Name.  Deatji  or  Resi(;nati(^n. 

Lorenzo    Sawyer Died  Sept.  7,  1891 

H.   W.   Harkness Died    July  10.  1901 

James  Mc-M.  Shafter Died   Aug.  29.  1892 

josiah    Stanford Died    May  14.  1890 

Ciiarles   (kxxlall Died    July  13.  1899 

Alfred    L.   Tubbs Died    Dec.  26.  1896 

John   F.   Miller Died    Mar.  8.  1886 

P^rancis  E.  Spencer Died  April  23,  1898 

John     Boggs Died    Jan.  30.  1899 

Henry    Vrooman Died  April  8.  1889 

•Charles  F.  Crocker T^ied    July  17,  1887 

Isaac    S.    Belcher Died    Nov.  30.  1898 

John  Q.  Brown Died    Dec.  20.  1892 

Henry   L.   Dodge Died    Feb.  24.  1902 

Irving  I\r.  Scott Resig'd    May  11.  1898 

N.    W.    Spaulding Resig'd    .\pr.  24,  1903 

William  Ashburner  Died   April  20.  1887 

Matthew  P.  Deady Died    Mar.  24.  1893 

A\illiani    -M.  Stewart Resig'd    Oct.  31.  1904 

SteplK-u    J.    Field Resig'd    Oct.  1.^.  1804 


Appointed  and  Elected. 

Namk.  .Ai'i'oiNTMKNT  or  l''i,Krri()N.         Dkatii  or  Resig.vation. 

1  [..ratio    Stebbins Nov.  12,  1886      Died  April  9.  1902 

Kdwar.I    K.  'Paylqr Dec.     4,  1891  Resig'd    May  9,  1899 

Josiah    W.    Stanford \pril  29.  1896  Resig'd    May  31.  1808 

Russell    J.    Wilson Feb.     2,  1897  Resig'd    Oct.  24.  lim 

Jane    L.    Stanford July     6,1903       Died    Feb.  28.  190.S 


SUCCESSION   OF   TRUSTEES. 


Original  Trustees. 

Lorenzo  Sawyer, 
H.   W.   Harkness, 
James  Mc.  M.  Shafter, 
Josiah   Stanford, 

Charles   Goodall, 
Horace  Davis. 
Alfred  L.  Tnbbs, 

John   F.   IMiller, 

Francis   E.   Spencer. 
John   Boggs, 
Henry  Vrooman, 
T.   15.   McFarland. 
Charles   F.   Crocker, 
Isaac  S.  Belcher, 
Timothy  Hopkins, 
John  O.    Brown. 
Henry   L.   Dodge. 
George   E.   (iray. 
lr\-ing  M.  Scott, 
X.  \\  .  Spaulding. 

W  illiam    Ashhurner, 
Matthew  P.  Deady, 
William   M.  Stewart, 
Stephen   J.    Field, 


Successors. 

Leon  Sloss, 
(Permanent  A'acancy) 
Charles  G.   Lathrop, 
Edward  R.  Taylor, 
(Permanent  \'acancy) 
(Permanent  \'acancy) 
Active. 

Russell  J.   \\'ilson, 
A\'illiam   PJabcock, 
Horatio   Stebbins. 
Whitelaw^  Reid. 
(Permanent  A'acancy) 
(Permanent  \'acancy) 
Samuel  F.  Leib. 
Died  Sept.  16.  1908. 
(Permanent  A'acancy) 
(Permanent   \'acancy) 
Active, 
Frank  [Miller. 
George  E.  Crothers, 
Active, 

(Permanent  A'acancy) 
Jane   L.   Stanford. 
Vanderl}nn  Stow. 
Joseph   T).  (irant. 
Thomas  W.   Stanford, 
Charles   P.   Eells. 
Josiah  W.  Stanford. 
(Permanent  \'acancy) 


PART  II. 


LEGISLATION : 

ENABLING   ACT 

CONSTITUTIONAL   AMENDMENT 

ACT   CONFERRING   CORPORATE    POWERS 

ACT   CONCERNING   TAXATION   AND   TUITION   FEES 

ACT    PROVIDING    FOR    DETERMINATION    OF   VALID- 
ITY   AND    LEGAL    EFFECT    OF    GRANTS,    ETC. 

ACT   PROVIDING   FOR   RESIGNATION   OF  SURVIVING 
FOUNDER  AND  SUCCESSION   OF   TRUSTEES. 

SEC.   2295.  P.  C,  CONCERNING   OFFICIAL  STATE   PUB- 
LICATIONS 


13 


THE    ENABLING    ACT. 

An  act  to  ach'ance  learning,  the  arts  and  sciences,  and  to 
promote  tlie  public  welfare,  by  providing  for  the  convey- 
ance, holding  and  protection  of  property,  and  the  creation 
of  trusts  for  the  founding,  endowment,  erection  and  main- 
tenance within  this  State  of  universities,  colleges,  schools, 
seminaries  of  learning,  mechanical  institutes,  museums 
and    galleries    of    art. 

[Approved    March    9,    1885.      Stats.    1885,    p.   49.] 

The  people  of  the  State  of  California,  represented  in  Senate 
and  Assembly,  do  enact  as   follows : 

Section  1.  The  provisions  of  this  Act  shall  be  liberally 
construed  \vith  a  view  to  effect  its  objects  and  j^romote  its 
purposes  ;  and  in  the  construction  thereof  the  singular  num- 
ber shall  be  deemed  to  include  the  plural,  and  the  plural 
shall  be  deemed  to  include  the  singular  number,  and  the 
masculine    gender    shall   be    deemed   to    include   the    feminine. 

Sec.  2.  Any  person  desiring,  in  his  life  time,  to  promote 
the  public  welfare  by  founding,  endowing,  and  having  main- 
tained, within  this  State,  a  uni\'ersity,  college,  school,  semi- 
nary of  learning,  mechanical  institute,  museum,  or  gallery 
of  art,  or  any  or  all  thereof,  may,  to  that  end,  and  for  such 
])urposc,  b}-  grant  in  writing,  convey  to  a  Trustee,  or  to  any 
number  of  Trustees  named  in  such  grant  (and  to  their 
successors),  any  property,  real  or  personal,  belonging  to 
such  person,  and  situated  or  being  within  this  State,  pro- 
vided, that  if  any  such  person  be  married  and  the  property 
be  community  property,  then  both  husband  and  wife  must 
join    in    such   grant. 


U  TIIK     KXAliLIXC^     ACT. 

Sec.  3.  The  ])erson  making-  such  iiT.int  may  therein 
designate  : 

1.  Tlie  nature,  ol)ject  and  pur]>oses  of  the  institution  or 
institutions  to  he  founded,  endowed  and  maintained. 

2.  The  name  1)y   wliicli   it   or  they  shall  be  known. 

3.  The  powers  and  duties  of  the  Trustees,  and  the  man- 
ner in  which  they  shall  account,  and  to  whom,  if  accounting;: 
be  required ;  but  such  powers  and  duties  shall  not  be  held 
to  be  exclusive  of  other  powers  and  duties  which  may  be 
necessary  to  enable  such  Trustees  to  full}'  carr}-  out  the 
objects  of  such  grant. 

4.  The  mode  and  manner,  and  by  whom,  the  successors 
to  the  Trustee  or  Trustees  named  in  the  grant  are  to  be 
appointed. 

5.  Such  rules  and  regulations  for  the  management  of 
the  property  conveyed  as  the  grantor  may  elect  to  pre- 
scribe ;  but  such  rules  shall,  unless  the  grantor  otherwise 
prescribe,  be  deemed  advisory  only,  and  shall  not  preclude 
such  Trustees  from  making  such  changes  as  new  cf^iditions 
may  from  time  to  time  require. 

6.  The  place  or  places  where,  and  the  time  when,  the 
buildings  necessary  and  proper  for  the  institution  or  insti- 
tutions shall  be  erected,  and  the  character  and  extent  thereof. 
The  person  making  such  grant  may  therein  pro\'ide  for 
all  other  things  necessary  and  proper  to  carry  out  the  pur- 
poses thereof,  and  especially  may  such  person  j^rovide  for 
the  trades  and  ])rofessions  which  shall  he  taught  in  such 
institutions,  and  the  terms  upon  which  deserving  scholars 
of  the  public  and  private  schools  of  the  various  counties 
of  this  State  may  l)e  admitted  to  all  the  ]:)rivileges  of  such 
institutions,  as  a  reward  for  meritorious  conduct  and  good 
scholarship;  and  also  for  maintaining  free  scholarships  for 
children  of  persons  who  have  rendered  service  to  or  who 
have  died  in  the  service  of  this  State;  and  also  for  main- 
taining free  scholarships  for  children  of  mechanics,  trades- 
men and  laborers,  who  ha\-e  died  without  leaving  means 
sufficient  to  give   such   children   a   ])ractical   education,   fitting 


THE    EXABLrXG    ACT.  15 

them  for  the  useful  trades  or  arts;  and  also  the  terms  and 
conditions  upon  which  students  in  the  pu])lic  and  private 
schools,  and  other  deserving  persons  may,  without  cost 
to  themselves,  attend  the  lectures  of  any  university  estab- 
lished; and  also  the  terms  and  conditions  upon  which  the 
museums,  and  art  galleries,  and  conservatories  of  music 
connected  with  an}-  such  institution,  shall  be  open  to  all 
deserving  persons,  without  charge,  and  without  their  becom- 
ing students  of  the  institution. 

Sec.  4.  The  Trustee  or  Trustees  named  in  such  grant, 
and  their  successors,  may,  in  the  name  of  the  institution  or 
institutions,  as  designated  in  such  grant,  sue  and  defend, 
in  relation  to  the  trust  propert}',  and  in  relation  to  all 
matters  affecting  the  institution  or  institutions  endowed 
and  established  by  such  grant. 

Sec.  5.  The  person  making  such  grant,  by  a  provision 
therein,  may  elect,  in  relation  to  the  property  conveyed 
and  in  relation  to  the  erection,  maintenance  and  manage- 
ment of  such  institution  or  institutions,  to  perform,  during 
his  life,  all  the  duties  and  exercise  all  the  powers  which, 
by  the  terms  of  the  grant,  are  enjoined  upon  and  vested 
in  the  Trustee  or  Trustees  therein  named.  If  the  person 
making  such  grant,  and  making  the  election  aforesaid,  be 
a  married  person,  such  person  may  further  provide  that  if 
the  wife  of  such  person  survive  him.  then  such  wife,  during 
her  life.  may.  in  relation  to  the  propert}-  conveyed,  and 
in  relation  to  the  erection,  maintenance,  and  management 
of  such  institution  or  institutions,  perform  all  the  duties 
and  exercise  all  the  ]iowers  which,  by  the  terms  of  the 
grant,  arc  enjoined  upou  and  vested  in  the  Trustee  or 
Trustees  therein  named,  and  in  all  such  cases  the  powers 
and  duties  coiiferred  and  imposed  b}'  such  grant  upon  the 
Trustee  or  Trustees  therein  named,  shall  be  exercised  and 
performed  b}-  the  person  making  such  grant,  or  b}-  his  wife 
during  his  or  her  life,  as  the  case  may  be;  i)rovided.  how- 
ever, that  upon  the  death  of  such  person,  or  his  survi\ing 
wife,    as    the    case    may    be.    such    powers    and    duties    shall 


16  THE   EXABr.IXG    ACT. 

devolve  upon  ami  shall  be  exercised  by  the  Trustees  named 
in    the    ti^rant    and    iheir   successors. 

Sec.  6.  The  person  making  such  grant  may  therein 
reserve  the  right  to  alter,  amend  or  modify  the  terms  and 
conditions  thereof  and  the  trusts  therein  created,  in  respect 
to  any  of  the  matters  mentioned  or  referred  to  in  subdi- 
visions one  to  six  inclusi\c,  ol  section  two  (three)  hereof;  and 
may  also  therein  reserve  ihe  right,  during  the  life  of  such  per- 
son e)r  persons,  of  absolute  dominion  over  the  personal  proi)erty 
conveyed,  and  also  over  the  rents,  issues,  and  profits  of  the 
real  property  conveyed,  without  liability  to  account  there- 
for in  any  manner  \vhate\er  and  without  any  liability 
over  against  the  estate  of  such  person ;  and  if  any  such 
person  be  married,  such  j^erson  ma}',  in  said  grant,  further 
provide  that  if  his  wife  survive  him,  then  such  wife,  dur- 
ing her  life,  may  have  the  same  absolute  dominion  over 
such  personal  property,  and  such  rents,  issues  and  profits, 
without  liability  to  account  therefor  in  any  manner  what- 
e\er,  and  without  liability  over  against  the  estate  of  either 
of   the   spouses. 

Sec.  7.  The  person  making  stich  grant  may  therein 
provide  that  the  Trustees  named  in  the  grant,  and  their 
successors,  may  in  the  name  of  the  institution  or  institutions, 
become  tlie  custodian  of  liie  ])ersons  of  minors,  and  when 
any  such  pro\ision  is  made  in  a  grant,  the  Trustees  and 
their  successors  may  take  such  custody  and  control  in  the 
manner  and  for  the  time,  and  in  accordance  with  the  pro- 
visions of  sections  two  hundred  and  sixt\-fotir  to  two  him- 
dred  and  seventy-six,  mclusi\e.  of  the  Ci\i]  Code  of  the 
State   of  California. 

Sec.  8.  Any  such  i^rant  may  be  executed,  acknowledged 
and  recorded  in  the  same  r.ianner  as  is  now  i)rovided  by 
law  for  the  execution,  acknowle(lgment  and  recording  of 
grants  of  real   property. 

Sec.  9.  \o  stiit.  action,  or  ])roceeding  ^hall  be  com- 
menced   ')r    maintaincfl    ])y    any    person    to    set    aside,    anmd, 


THE   ENABLING   ACT.  17 

or  affect  said  coiiAeyance,  or  to  aft'ect  the  title  to  the  prop- 
erty conveyed,  or  the  right  to  the  possession,  or  to  the  rents, 
issues  and  profits  thereof,  unless  the  same  be  commenced 
Avithin  two  years  after  the  date  of  filing  such  grant  for 
record ;  nor  shall  any  defense  be  made  to  any  suit,  action 
or  proceedings  commenced  by  the  Trustee  or  Trustees 
named  in  said  grant,  or  their  successors,  privies  or  persons 
holding  under  them,  which  defense  involves  the  legality 
of  said  grant,  or  affects  the  title  to  the  property  thereby 
conveyed,  or  the  right  to  the  possession,  or  the  rents,  issues 
and  profits  thereof,  unless  such  defense  is  made  in  a  suit, 
action  or  proceeding  commenced  within  two  years  after 
such  grant  shall  have  been  filed  for  record. 

Sec.  10.  The  property  conveyed  by  such  grant  shall 
not,  after  the  lapse  of  two  years  from  the  date  of  the 
filing  for  record  of  the  grant,  be  subject  to  forced  sale 
under  execution,  or  judicial  proceedings  of  any  kind,  against 
the  grantor  or  his  privies,  unless  the  action  under  which 
the  execution  shall  be  issued,  or  the  proceedings  under 
which  the  sale  shall  be  ordered,  shall  have  been  commenced 
within  two  years  after  such  grant  shall  have  been  filed 
for  record.  Nor  shall  such  property  be  subject  to  execu- 
tion or  forced  sale  under  any  judgment  obtained  in  any 
proceedings  instituted  within  said  two  years,  if  there  be 
other  property  of  the  grantor  subject  to  execution  or  forced 
sale  sufficient  to  satisfy  such  judgement,  provided,  nothing 
in  this  section  contained  shall  be  construed  to  affect  me- 
chanics'  or    laborers'    liens. 

Sec.  11.  Any  person  or  persons  making  any  such  grant 
may,  at  any  time  thereafter,  by  last  w-ill  or  testament, 
devise  and  bequeath  to  the  State  of  California  all  or  any 
of  the  property,  real  and  personal,  mentioned  in  such  grant, 
or  in  any  supplemental  grant,  and  such  devise  or  bequest 
shall  only  take  ett'cct  in  case,  from  any  cause  whatever,  the 
grant  shall  be  annulled,  or  set  aside,  or  the  trusts  therein 
declared  shall  for  any  reason  fail.  Such  devise  and  bequest 
is   hereb}^   permitted   to   be    made   by    way   of  assurance   that 


IS  CONSTITT'TlOXAr.  AMENDMENT. 

the  wishes  of  the  |u:i'antor  or  g;ranlors  shall  bo  carried  out, 
and  in  the  faith  that  the  State,  in  case  it  succeeds  to  the 
property,  or  an\'  ])art  thereof.  Avill.  to  the  extent  and  value 
of  such  propcrt}'.  carry  out.  in  respect  to  the  objects  and 
purposes  of  any  such  i^rant.  all  the  wishes  and  intentions 
of  the  grantor  or  grantors;  pro\ided.  that  no  wish,  direction, 
act  or  condition  expressed,  made,  or  given  by  any  grantor 
or  grantors,  under  or  by  virtue  of  this  act.  as  to  religious 
instruction  to  be  gi\en  in  such  school,  college,  seminary, 
mechanical  institute,  museum  or  gallery  of  art,  or  in  respect 
to  the  exercise  ot  religious  belief,  on  the  part  of  any  pupil 
c^r  pupils  of  such  school  or  institution  of  learning,  shall 
be  binding  upon  the  State;  nor  shall  the  State  enforce,  or 
permit  to  be  enforced  or  carried  out.  any  such  wish,  direc- 
tion, act  or  condition. 

Sec.  12.  This  act  shall  be  in  force  from  and  after  its 
passage. 

CONSTITUTIONAL  AMENDMENT. 
Article    IX. 

(Adopted  Xovembcr  6.  1900.) 

Section  10.  The  trusts  and  estates  created  for  the  found- 
ing, endowment,  and  maintenance  of  the  Leland  Stanford 
Junior  l'ni\ersity.  under  and  in  accordance  with  ".\n  Act 
to  advance  learning,  etc.."  a]>])roved  March  ninth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  eighty-tive.  by  the  endowment  grant  executed 
by  Leland  Stanford  atul  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  on  the 
eleventh  da}-  of  Xovembcr.  .\.  D.  eighteen  hundred  and 
eighty-five,  and  recorded  in  !il)er  eighty-three  of  deeds,  at 
page  twent}-lhree.  et  se(|..  records  of  Santa  Clara  County, 
and  by  the  amendments  of  such  grant,  and  l)y  gifts,  grants, 
bequests,  and  devises  su]")plementary  thereto,  and  by  con- 
firmatory grants,  are  ])cnnilted.  ai)proved,  and  confirmed. 
The  board  of  trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  I'ni- 
versity,   as    such,   or    in    the    name    of   the    institutit^n.    or    by 


ACT     CONFEEKIXG    CORPORATt:     POWERS.  19 

Other  intelligible  designation  of  the  trustees  or  of  the  insti- 
tution, may  receive  property,  real  or  personal,  and  where- 
ever  situated,  by  gift,  grant,  devise,  or  bequest,  for  the 
benefit  of  the  institution,  or  of  any  department  thereof,  and 
such  property,  unless  otherwise  provided,  shall  be  held  by 
the  trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  upon 
the  trusts  provided  for  in  the  grant  founding  the  university, 
and  amendments  thereof,  and  grants,  bequests,  and  devises 
supplementary  thereto.  The  Legislature,  by  special  act, 
may  grant  to  the  trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
L'niversity  corporate  powers  and  privileges,  but  it  shall  not 
thereby  alter  their  tenure,  or  limit  their  powers  or  obliga- 
tions as  trustees.  All  property  now  or  hereafter  held  in 
trust  for  the  founding,  maintenance,  or  benefit  of  the  Leland 
Stanford  Junior  L'niversity,  or  of  any  department  thereof, 
may  be  exempted  by  special  act  from  the  State  taxation, 
and  all  personal  property  so  held,  the  Palo  Alto  farm  as 
described  in  the  endowment  grant  to  the  trustees  of  the 
university,  and  all  other  real  property  so  held  and  used 
by  the  university  for  educational  purposes  exclusively,  may 
be  similarly  exempted  from  county  and  municipal  taxation ; 
provided,  that  residents  of  California  shall  be  charged  no 
fees  for  tuition  unless  such  fees  be  authorized  by  act  of  the 
Legislature. 


ACT    CONFERRING    CORPORATE    POWERS. 

An  act  granting  to  the  trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
University  corporate  powers  and  privileges. 

[Approved    February    14,    1"'01.      Stats.    1901,    p.    4.] 

The  people  of  the  State  of  California,  represented  in  Senate 
and   Assembly,   do  enact   as   follows : 

Section     1.     The    trustees    of   the    Leland    Stanford   Junior 
University  are   gi\en   the  right  to  exercise   corporate   pc~)wers 


20  ACT     COXcKKNiXG     TAXATION'     AND     FRE8. 

and  privileges,  and  lo  that  end  they  may  organize  and 
act  as  a  board  of  trustees,  elect  such  officers  of  such  board 
as  they  may  deem  to  be  necessary,  adopt  by-laws,  and  as 
such  board,  and  through  the  officers  thereof,  they  may 
transact  such  busmess,  perform  such  acts  and  exercise 
such  powers  as  they  in  writing  may  provide  may  be  trans- 
acted,   performed    and    exercised    l)y    sucli    board. 

Such  board  may  adopt  a  seal  which  shall  read,  "Seal  of 
the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,"  and  such  seal,  when 
attached  to  any  document  or  writing,  shall  be  prima  facie 
evidence  that  such  document  or  writing  w-as  made  by 
and  under  due  authority  from  such  board  and  from  such 
trustees. 

Nothing  herein  shall  be  deemed  to  alter  the  tenure  or 
limit  the   powers   or  obligations   of  such   trustees. 

Sec.     2.     This   act   shall   take    effect   from    its   passage. 


ACT  CONCERNING  TAXATION  AND  TUITION  FEES. 

An  act  to  amend  an  act  entitled  '"An  act  exempting  from 
taxation  a  portion  of  the  property  held  in  trust  for  the 
benefit  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,"  ap- 
proved February  14,  1*^01,  relating  to  tuition  fees  in  said 
university. 

[Approved    March    6,    1907.] 

The  people  of  the  State  of  California,  represented  in  Senate 
and   Assembly,  do   enact  as   follows : 

Section  1.  Section  one  of  an  act  entitled.  "An  act 
exempting  from  taxation  a  portion  of  the  property  held 
in  trust  for  the  benefit  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
University,"  approved  February  14.  1^01 ,  is  hereby  amended 
so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  1.  The  university  buildings  of  the  Leland  Stan- 
ford Junior  University,  situate  in  the  county  of  Santa  Clara, 


ACT    AUTHORIZING    SPECIAL    PROCEEDING.  21 

State  of  California,  used  for  university  purposes,  and  .all 
bonds  held  or  that  may  be  held  by  the  trustees  of  such 
university  in  trust  for  the  benefit  of  such  university,  shall 
be  exempt  from  taxation ;  provided,  that  all  other  property, 
real  and  personal,  held  in  trust  for  the  benefit  of  such  uni- 
versity, shall  be  subject  to  state,  county  and  municipal 
taxation;  and  provided  further,  that  while  this  act  is  in 
force  no  fees  shall  be  charged  residents  of  this  state  for 
tuition  at  such  university,  except  that  such  fees  may  be 
charged  in  professional  and  engineering  courses,  but  no 
such  fees  shall  be  charged  to  any  student  who  is  registered 
in  any  of  such  courses  when  this  act  takes  efifect. 

Sec.     2.     This    act    shall    take    effect    from    its    passage. 


ACT  PROVIDING  FOR  DETERMINATION  OF  VAL- 
IDITY  AND   LEGAL   EFFECT   OF   GRANTS,    ETC. 

An  act  to  provide  for  proceedings  for  the  ascertainment  of 
the  existence  and  terms  of,  and  for  the  determination 
of  the  validity  and  legal  effect  of  grants  or  other  instru- 
ments creating,  changing  or  affecting  trusts  and  estates 
for  the  founding,  endowment  and  maintenance  of  a  uni- 
versity, college,  school,  seminary  of  learning,  mechanical 
institute,  museum,  gallery  of  art,  or  library,  or  any  other 
institution,  or  any  or  all  thereof,  under  or  pursuant  to 
an  act  entitled  "An  act  to  advance  learning,  the  arts  and 
sciences,  and  to  promote  the  public  welfare,  by  providing 
for  the  conveyance,  holding,  and  protection  of  property, 
and  the  creation  of  trusts  for  the  founding,  endowment, 
erection,  and  maintenance  within  this  State  of  univer- 
sities, colleges,  schools,  seminaries  of  learning,  mechanical 
institutes,  museums,  and  galleries  of  art,"  approved  ]\Iarch 
9,  1885,  or  under  or  pursuant  to  an  act  entitled  "An  act 
to  encourage  and  provide  for  the  dissemination  of  a  knowl- 
edge of  the  arts,  sciences,  and  general  literature,  and  the 
founding,  maintaining,  and  perpetuating  public  libraries, 
museums,  and  galleries  of  art,  and  the  receipt  of  donations 


22  ACT    AUTHORTZTNG    SPECIAL    PROCEEDING. 

and  contributions  thereto  when  established ;  for  the  con- 
veyance, holding  and  protection  of  real  property  within 
this  State  suitable  for  the  purposes  herein  designated, 
and  the  erection  thereon  of  buildings  appropriate  to  such 
purposes,  and  for  the  creation  of  trusts  necessary  or 
proper  for  the  better  preservation  of  such  institutions, 
and  the  control  and  management  thereof,"  approved 
March    5.    1887. 

[Approved    February    10,    1903.      Stats.    1903,   p.    9.] 

The  people  of  the  State  of  California,  represented  in  Senate 
and    Assembly,   do   enact   as   follows : 

Section  1.  The  trustee  or  trustees  of  any  trust  or  trusts 
heretofore  or  hereafter  created  for  the  founding,  endow- 
ment and  maintenance  of  a  university,  college,  school,  sem- 
inary of  learning,  meclianical  institute,  museum,  gallery 
of  art.  library  or  any  other  institution,  or  any  or  all  thereof, 
under  or  pursuant  to  an  act  entitled  "An  act  to  advance 
learning,  the  arts  and  sciences,  and  to  ])romote  the  public 
welfare,  by  providing  for  tlic  con\-eyance,  holding,  and 
protection  of  pro])erty,  and  tlie  creation  of  trusts  for  the 
founding,  endowment,  erection,  and  maintenance  within  this 
State  of  universities,  colleges,  schools,  seminaries  of  learning, 
mechanical  institutes,  museums,  and  galleries  of  art,"  ap- 
proved March  9,  1885,  or  und-jr  or  pursuant  to  an  act 
entitled  "An  act  to  encourage  and  ))rovide  for  the  dis- 
semination of  a  knowledge  of  the  arts,  sciences,  and  general 
literature,  and  the  founding,  mainlaining.  and  perpetuating 
public  libraries,  nniseums,  and  galleries  of  art.  and  the  receipt 
of  donations  and  contributions  thereto  w  hen  established  ;  for 
the  conveyance,  holding  and  protection  of  real  ])roperty  within 
this  State  suitable  for  the  ])m"poses  herein  designated,  and 
the  erection  thereon  of  buildings  appropriate  to  such  pur- 
poses, and  for  the  creation  of  trusts  necessary  or  proper 
for  the  better  ])reservation  of  such  institutions,  and  the 
control   and   management   thereof,"   approved   March   5,    1887. 


ACT    AUTHORIZING    SPECIAL    PROCEEDING.  23 

may  commence  a  special  proceeding  in  and  l)y  which  may 
be  determined  all  questions  of  law  and  fact  affecting  the 
existence  of,  and  the  due  and  voluntary  execution  and 
delivery,  and  the  terms,  validity  and  legal  effect  of  the 
grant  or  grants  founding  the  same,  and  of  all  amendments 
or  attempted  amendments  thereof,  and  of  any  supplemental 
grants  or  gifts,  and  of  any  confirmatory  conveyances,  ot 
the  founder  or  founders,  or  surviving  founder,  or  wife  or 
widow  of  any  such  founder;  and  in  and  by  which  may 
be  determined  all  questions  of  law  and  fact  affecting  the 
due  and  voluntary  execution  and  delivery,  and  the  validity 
and  legal  effect,  of  any  gift  or  grant  made  in  general  terms 
for  the  benefit  of  the  institution  or  institutions,  or  of  any 
department  thereof,  or  of  any  gift  or  grant  made  in  general 
terms  for  the  benefit  of  the  institution  or  institutions,  or  of 
any  department  thereof,  upon  the  trusts  provided  for  in  the 
grant  founding  the  institution  or  institutions,  and  amend- 
ments thereof  and  grants,  bequests  and  devises  supplement- 
ary thereto,  and  in  and  by  which  may  be  determined  all 
questions  bearing  upon  the  passing  to  the  trustee  or  trus- 
tees of  the  legal  title  to  the  properties,  real  and  personal, 
conveyed  or  attempted  to  be  conveyed,  so  far  as  such  prop- 
erty or  the  proceeds  thereof,  or  any  property  acquired  in 
exchange  therefor  or  with  proceeds  thereof,  may  be  described 
in  the  petition  herein  provided  for,  and  the  interest  or  title 
of  the  trustee  or  trustees  in  or  to  any  such  property 
described  in  such  petition ;  and  in  and  by  which  may  be 
determined  all  questions  of  law  and  fact  affecting  the  due 
and  voluntary  execution  and  delivery,  and  the  \-alidity  and 
legal  eff'ect,  of  any  grant  or  surrender  by  any  such  founder 
or  founders,  sur\-iving  founder,  or  wife  or  widow  of  any 
founder,  to.  or  in  fa\-or  of.  such  trustee  or  trustees,  of 
any  rights,  powers,  privileges  or  duties  reserved  to  or  vest- 
ing in  any  such  person  or  persons  over  or  concerning  any 
property  described  in  the  petition  herein  provided  for,  or 
over  or  concerning  an}-  such  institution  or  institutions  so 
founded,  which  would  otherwise  vest  in  or  devolve  upon 
such    trustee    or    trustees    upon    the    death    of    the    person    or 


24  ACT    AUTHORIZINCr    SPECIAL    PROCEEDING. 

persons  so  granting  or  surrendering  the  same,  and  of  any 
relinquisinnent  or  release  by  the  founder  or  founders,  sur- 
^•i\•ing  founder,  or  wife  or  widow  of  any  founder,  of  any 
other  such  rights,  powers,  jMnvileges  or  duties  so  reserved 
to  or  vesting  in  any  such  person  or  persons.  To  this  end 
the  trustee  or  trustees  of  any  trust  hereinbefore  referred 
to,  in  the  name  of  tlic  institution  or  institutions  so  founded, 
or  in  the  name  of  the  trustee  or  trustees  of  such  institution 
or  institutions,  or  in  the  name  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
such  institution  or  institulii'jns,  may  file,  in  the  superior 
court  of  the  county  in  which  the  lands  described  in  the 
founding  grant  or  grants,  or  some  portion  thereof,  are  sit- 
uated, or.  if  no  real  estate  has  been  granted  as  herein 
provided  to  such  trustees,  then  in  the  county  where  the 
main  part  of  any  such  institution  or  institutions  is  situated, 
a  petition  in  writing,  signed  by  counsel  for  such  trustee 
or  trustees,  or  b}'  counsel  for  a  majority  thereof,  which 
petition  shall  contain  copies  of  all  such  grants,  amendments, 
attempted  amendments,  supplemental  grants,  instruments 
of  gift,  confirmatory  conveyances,  and  grants  and  instru- 
ments of  surrender,  relinquishment  or  release,  hereinbefore 
mentioned  or  referred  to,  so  far  as  known  to  such  trustee 
or  trustees;  and  the  petition  shall  allege  in  general  terms 
the  due  and  \()luntary  execution  and  delivery,  and  the 
validity,  of  any  and  all  of  such  instruments,  copies  of  which 
are  set  out  in  the  petition,  and  shall  describe  all  property, 
real  and  personal,  the  legal  title  to  which  is  held  or  claimed 
to  be  held  l)y  said  trustee  or  trustees  under  or  by  virtue 
<-)f  anv  or  all  of  such  instrunuMits.  whether  or  not  the  same 
l)e  the  original  property  conveyed,  the  ])roceeds  thereof,  or 
reimested  proceeds;  and  the  petition  shall  allege  in  general 
terms  the  estate  or  interest  wliich  Ihc  trustee  or  trustees 
have  or  claim  in  or  to  the  ])roperty  described  ;  and  the  peti- 
tion shall  pray,  in  effect,  that  the  court  examine  and 
determine  all  (piestions  of  law  and  fact  affecting  the  due 
and  voluntary  execution  and  ileli\ery,  and  the  terms,  ^•alid- 
ity  and  legal  effect  of  all  such  insirumetits,  copies  of  which 
are   so   set   out    in    the   petition;   and   that    the   court   examine 


ACT    AUTHORIZING    SPECIAL    PEOCEEDIXG.  25 

and  determine  all  questions  bearing  upon  the  passing 
to  the  trustee  or  trustees,  of  the  legal  title  to  all  the 
properties,  real  and  personal,  so  conveyed  or  attempted  to 
be  conveyed,  so  far  as  the  same  or  the  proceeds  thereof, 
or  any  property  acquired  in  exchange  therefor  or  with  the 
proceeds  thereof,  may  be  described  in  said  petition ;  and 
that  the  court  examine  and  determine  the  interest  or  title 
of  the  trustee  or  trustees  in  or  to  any  such  property ;  and 
that  it  be  established  and  determined  that  the  trustee  or 
trustees   are   rightfully   vested   with   the   legal  title   thereto. 

Sec.  2.  The  court  or  judge  shall  fix  the  time  for  the 
hearing  of  said  petition,  and  shall  order  the  clerk  of  the 
court  to.  post  in  at  least  three  public  places  in  the  county 
a  notice  of  the  filing  of  said  petition,  attached  to  a  copy 
of  said  petition,  and  order  a  copy  of  such  notice  together 
with  a  copy  of  the  petition  to  be  personally  served  upon 
the  founder  or  founders,  if  living,  and  upon  the  surviving 
wife  or  widow  of  any  founder,  and  upon  any  living  grantor 
or  donor  of  any  other  grant  or  gift  set  out  in  the  petition 
and  may  order  such  other  or  further  notice  to  be  given 
as  the  judge  or  court  may  deem  proper.  Such  notice  shall 
be  posted  and  served  at  least  ten  days  before  the  hearing.  If 
the  court  or  judge  finds  upon  the  hearing  that  due  and 
proper  notice  has  not  been  given  as  herein  provided,  it  shall 
reset  the  hearing  and  cavise  such  due  and  proper  notice  to 
be  given.  The  notice  and  petition  shall  be  entitled  sub- 
stantially   in    the    following   form : 

In  the  Superior  Court  of  the Count}-  (^f  State  of 

California. 

In    the    matter    of    the    ])etition    of fgixing    the    name 

or  names  in  which  the  petition  is  brought)  for  the  ascer- 
tainment of  the  existence  and  terms  of,  and  for  the  determina- 
tion of  the  \'alidity  and  legal  effect  of  grants  or  other 
instruments  creating,  changing  or  alTecting  trusts  and  estates 
for  the  founding,  endowmont  and  maintenance  of (nam- 
ing the   institution  or  institutions   founded). 


26  ACT    AUTHORIZING    SPECIAL    PROCEEDING. 

The  notice  shall  state  the  time  and  place  fixed  for  the 
hearing  of  the  petition  and  shall  be  addressed  to  the  founder 
or  founders,  living,  and  to  the  surviving  wife  or  widow  of 
any  founder,  and  the  living  grantor  or  donor  of  any  other 
grant  or  gift  set  out  in  the  petition,  and  in  general  terms 
to  all  other  persons  having  or  claiming  any  interest  in, 
or  rights,  powers,  or  duties  over  or  concerning  the  property 
described  in  the  petition ;  and  shall  direct  that  they  and 
each  of  such  persons  appear  and  answer  said  petition  on 
or  before  the  time  set  for  said  hearing;  and  shall  state 
that  unless  said  persons  so  appear  and  demur  or  answer, 
the  petitioners  will  apply  to  the  court  to  grant  the  prayer 
of  the  petition,  and  that  each  person  failing  to  so  appear 
and  answer,  shall  be  deemed  to  admit  as  true  all  the 
material   allegations  of  the   petition. 

Any  of  the  persons  so  required  to  be  served,  or  any  other 
person  so  interested  may  waive  notice  by  written  waiver 
filed  with  the  clerk  of  the  court. 

Sec.  3.  Any  j^erson  interested  in  tlie  determination  of 
any  of  the  ([ucstions  presented  l)y  the  petition  may  demur 
to  or  answer  said  petition  and  may  set  up  any  new  matter 
aflecting  the  determination  of  an}-  such  (|uestions.  Any 
allegation  of  the  petition  or  answer  may  be  made  upon 
information  and  belief.  The  provisions  of  the  Code  of 
Civil  Procedure  respecting  the  demurrer  and  the  answer 
to  a  \erified  complaint,  shall  be  ap])]icable  to  a  demurrer 
or  answer  to  said  petition.  The  ])ersons  so  demurring  to 
or  answering  said  ])etition  shall  be  the  defendants  to  said 
sj)ecia!  ])rc)cee(ling  and  the  petitioner^-  sliall  be  tlic  i)lainlilTs. 
Every  material  statement  of  the  petition  not  specifically 
controverted  by  the  answer  must,  for  the  ])urposes  of  said 
special  ])r()cceding.  be  taken  as  true;  and  each  person  failing 
to  answer  the  ]K-tition  shall  be  deemed  to  admit  as  true 
all  the  material  allegations  of  the  petiticn.  The  rules  of 
pleading  and  i)ractice  provided  for  by  ilic  Code  of  Civil 
Procedure,  which  are  not  inconsistent  with  the  ])rovisions 
of  this  act,  are  ap])licable  to  the  sj^ecial  i)roceeding  herein 
jirovided    for. 


ACT     CONCERNING     RESIGNATION    OF    FOUNDER  27 

Sec.  4.  Upon  the  hearing  of  such  special  proceeding, 
the  court  shall  have  power  and  jurisdiction  to  examine 
into  and  determine  all  questions  of  law  and  fact  within 
the  scope  of  the  proceeding  herein  provided  for,  whether 
presented  by  the  petition  or  answer,  or  by  the  proofs  upon 
the   hearing. 

The  court  shall  find  and  determine  whether  the  notice  of 
the  filing  of  said  petition  has  been  duly  given  for  the 
time   and   in   the   manner   in    this   act   prescribed. 

The  costs  of  the  special  proceeding  may  be  allowed  and 
apportioned  between  all  parties,  in  the  discretion  of  the  court. 

Sec.  5.  A  certified  copy  of  the  judgement  of  the  court 
in  such  special  proceeding  shall  be  recorded  in  the  office 
of  the  recorder  of  the  county  in  which  the  action  is  brought 
and  in  the  office  of  the  recorder  of  every  county  in  which 
any  of  the  real  property  affected  is  situated. 

Sec.  6.  The  judgment  of  the  court  in  such  special 
proceeding  shall  be  determinative  of  the  terms  and  trusts 
upon  which  any  property  thereafter  given  for  the  benefit 
of  such  institution  or  institutions,  or  any  department  thereof, 
shall  be  held  ijy  such  trustee  or  trustees,  unless  otherwise 
provided  by  the  grantor  or  donor  of  such  property. 

Sec.  7.  This  act  sliall  take  eft'ect  and  be  in  force  from 
and   after    its   passage. 

ACT  PROVIDING  FOR  RESIGNATION  OF  SUR- 
VIVING FOUNDER  AND  SUCCESSION  OF 
TRUSTEES. 

An  act  sui)plcnicntal  to  an  act  entitled  "An  act  to  adxance 
learning,  the  arts  and  sciences,  and  to  promote  the  public 
welfare,  by  pro\-iding  lor  the  conveyance,  holding,  and  pro- 
tection of  pro])erty,  and  the  creation  of  trusts  for  the  found- 
ing, cndnwnicnt,  erection,  and  maintenance  within  this 
State  of  uni\ersities.  colleges,  .schools,  seminaries  of  learn- 
in,   mechanical    institutes,    museums,   and   galleries   of   art," 


28  ACT    CONOEENING    EESIGNATIOX    OF    FOUNDER. 

approved  ^ larch  9,  1885,  concerning  the  resignation,  relin- 
qnishment  or  surrender  of  rights,  powers,  privileges  and 
duties  reserved  to  or  vesting  in  the  founder  or  founders, 
surviving  founder,  or  wife  or  widow  of  any  founder,  of 
any  institution  created  or  founded  under  or  pursuant  to 
said  act,  and  concerning  the  assumption  and  exercise  of 
powers  and  duties  by  the  trustee  or  trustees  of  such  insti- 
tution. 

(Approved  March  13,  1903.     Stats.  1903,  p.  140.) 

The  people  of  the  State  of  California,  represented  in  Senate 
and  Assembly  do  enact  as  follows : 

Section  1.  The  founder  or  founders,  surviving  founder 
or  wife  or  widow  of  any  founder,  of  a  university,  college 
school,  seminary  of  learning,  mechanical  institute,  museum, 
gallery  of  art.  library  or  any  other  institution,  or  any  or  all 
thereof,  founded  under  or  pursuant  to  an  act  entitled  "An 
act  to  advance  learning,  the  arts  and  sciences,  and  to  promote 
the  public  welfare,  by  providing  for  the  conveyance,  holding, 
and  protection  of  propert}',  and  the  creation  of  trusts  for 
the  founding,  endowment,  erection  and  maintenance  within 
this  State  of  universities,  colleges,  schools,  seminaries  of 
learning,  mechanical  institutes,  museums,  and  galleries  of 
art,"  approved  March  9,  1885,  may,  by  an  instrument  in 
writing,  resign,  relinquish  and  surrender  all  the  rights,  pow- 
ers, privileges  and  duties  reserved  to  or  vesting  in  such 
founder  or  founders,  surviving  founder,  or  wife  or  widow 
of  such  founder,  over,  in,  or  concerning  any  of  the  property 
granted  or  given  to  such  institution  or  institutions,  or  over 
or  concerning  any  such  institution  or  institutions  so  founded, 
and  thereupon  all  estates,  rights,  powers,  privileges,  trusts 
and  duties  which  would  otherwise  vest  in  or  devolve  upon 
the  trustee  or  trustees  of  the  trusts  and  estates  created  for 
the  founding,  endowment  and  maintenance  of  any  such  insti- 
tution or  institutions  upon  the  death  of  the  person  or  per.sons 
so    resigning,    relinquishing   and    surrendering,    by    terms    of 


DLSTKIBUTIOX     OF    8TATK     PUBLICATIONS.  29 

the  grant  founding  the  institution  or  institutions,  and  amend- 
ments thereof,  and  by  the  terms  of  any  grants,  gifts,  be- 
quests, and  devises  supplementary  thereto,  or  of  any  confirm- 
atory grants,  shall  immediately  vest  in  and  devolve  upon 
such  trustee  or  trustees.  Nothing  herein  contained  shall 
prevent  such  person  or  persons  so  resigning,  relinquishing 
and  surrendering  such  rights,  powers,  privileges,  or  duties 
from  thereafter  becoming  and  serving  as  one  of  such  trustees, 
or  from  becoming  and  serving  as  an  officer  of  any  board  of 
such  trustees. 

Sec.  2.     This  act  shall  take  effect  and  be   in   force  from 
and  after  its  passage. 


OFFICIAL    STATE    PUBLICATIONS. 

Section  2295,  Political  Code.  General  duties  of  State 
Librarian  : 

8.  To  distribute  to  the  State  university,  to  the  Leland 
Stanford  Jr.  University,  to  each  incorporated  college  in  the 
State,  to  each  public  library  therein,  and  to  such  other  liter- 
ary and  scientific  institutions  therein  as  his  judgment  may 
dictate,  one  copy  each  of  all  official  State  publications,  in- 
cluding the  laws,  journals  and  appendices  of  the  legislature, 
and  to  establish  and  maintain  with  similar  public  institutions 
of  the  general  government,  the  other  States,  and  foreign 
countries,  a  system  of  exchange  of  such  State  publications  for 
like  official  publications  and  other  valuable  works.  The  State 
Librarian  is  empowered  to  make  requisition  upon  the  Secre- 
tary of  State  for  a  sufficient  number  of  such  State  publica- 
tions, to  enable  him  to  carry  out  the  requirements  of  this 
subdivision.     En.  ^larch  12,  1872.    Am'd  1873-4,  Z7 ;  1903,  82. 


PART  III. 


DECREE  DETERMINING  THE  TERMS,  VALIDITY  AND 
LEGAL  EFFECT  OF  UNIVERSITY  TRUSTS,  IN- 
CLUDING:— 

FOUNDING   GRANT,   NOVEMBER    II,    1885. 

AMENDMENTS   OF   JUNE    1,    1897. 

AMENDMENTS   OF    MAY    31,    1899. 

ASSUMPTION  OF  CORPORATE   POWERS,  NO- 
VEMBER   1,    1901. 

AMENDMENTS   OF    OCTOBER    3,    1902. 

RESIGNATION      OF      SURVIVING      FOUNDER, 
JUNE    1,    1903. 

GENERAL  PROVISIONS  OF  DECREE,   JULY   3. 
1903. 


No.  14912  Department  2 

Superior    Court 

County  of  Santa  Clara 

State  of  California 

In  the  Matter  of  the  Petition  of  the 

Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,  and  of  Timothy  Hop- 
kins, Horace  Davis,  Thomas  B.  McFarland,  George  E. 
Gray,  William  M.  Stewart.  Joseph  D.  Grant,  Samuel  F. 
Leib,  Leon  Sloss,  Thomas  W.  Stanford,  Frank  ]Miller, 
Charles  G.  Lathrop,  Russell  J.  Wilson,  Whitelaw  Reid 
AND  George  E.  Crothers,  as  Trustees  of  the  Leland 
Stanford  Junior  University,  for  the  Ascertainment  of 
the  Existence  and  Terms  of,  and  for  the  Determination 
OF  the  Validity  and  Legal  Effect  of  Grants  or  Other 
Instruments,  Creating,  Changing  or  Affecting  Trusts 
AND  Estates  for  the  Founding,  Endow:ment  and  ]\Lvin- 

TENANCE  OP  THE  LeLAND  STANFORD  JUNIOR  UNIVERSITY. 


D 


ecree 


THOMAS   G.   CROTHERS 

MILLS  BUILDING  -  -  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Attorney  for  Petitioners 


35 


In  the  Superior  Court  of  the  County  of  Santa  Clara 
State  of  California 


In  the  Matter  of  the  Petition  of  the 

LELAND  STANFORD  JUNIOR  UNIVERSITY, 

and  of 

Timothy  Hopkins,  Horace  Davis,  Thomas  B.  Mc- 
Farland,  George  E.  Gray,  William  M.  Stewart, 
Joseph  D.  Grant,  Samuel  F.  Leib,  Leon  Sloss, 
Thomas  W.  Stanford,  Frank  Miller,  Charles  G. 
Lathrop,  Russell  J.  Wilson,  W^hitelaw  Reid  and 
George  E.  Crothers,  as  Trustees  of  the  Leland 
Stanford  Junior  University,  for  the  ascertainment 
of  the  existence  and  terms  of,  and  for  the  determi- 
nation of  the  validity  and  legal  effect  of  grants  or 
other  instruments  creating,  changing  or  affecting 
trusts  and  estates  tor  the  founding,  endowment 
and  maintenance  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
University. 


Decree 

The  above  entitled  matter  came  on  regularly  for  hearing 
by  this  Court  without  a  jury,  on  Saturday,  the  27th  day  of 
June,  1903,  at  the  hour  of  10:00  o'clock  A.  M.,  at  the  Court- 
room of  this  Court,  Department  Number  2  thereof,  at  the 
County  Courthouse  in  the  City  of  San  Jose,  in  the  County  of 
Santa   Clara,    State   of   California,   said   time   and   said   place 


36  DECREE,  PRELIMIXAEV    PROVISIONS. 

being  the  time  and  place  heretofore  lixed  by  this  Court  for 
hearing  said  petition.  Thomas  G.  Crothers  Esq.  appeared  as 
attorney  and  counsel  for  Petitioners,  and  Messrs.  Wilson  & 
A\'iIson  appeared  by  ^Nlountford  S.  Wilson  Esq.,  one  of  said 
firm,  as  attorneys  and  counsel  for  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford 
individualh'  and  as  Surviving  Founder  of  the  Leland  Stanford 
Junior  University  and  as  surviving  widow  of  Leland  Stan- 
ford, deceased,  and  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  was  person- 
ally present  in  Court. 

The  said  Jane  f^athrop  Stanford  individually  and  as  such 
Surviving  Founder  and  as  such  surviving  widow,  duly  filed 
herein  her  verified  answer,  in  which  she  admitted  each  and 
every  allegation  contained  in  said  Petition  and  prayed  that 
the  prayer  of  said  Petition  be  granted  and  that  the  Court 
make  and  render  such  further  order,  judgment,  decree  or 
relief  as  may  be  proper  in  the  premises. 

Tliereupon  this  Court  proceeded  with  the  hearing  of  said 
matter,  and  witnesses  were  duly  sworn  and  examined  and 
evidence,  both  oral  and  documentary,  was  offered  on  behalf 
of  petitioners  and  received  and  admitted  by  the  Court,  and 
thereafter  said  matter  and  hearing  was  duly  and  regularly 
continued  by  the  Court  until  Thursday,  the  2nd  day  of  July. 
1903,  at  the  hour  of  10:00  o'cloclc  A.  M.,  at  the  same  place; 
and  upon  the  said  Thursday,  the  2nd  day  of  July,  1903,  said 
matter  again  came  on  regularly  for  hearing,  and  was  there- 
upon again  duly  and  regularly  continued  by  the  Court  until 
Friday,  the  3rd  day  of  July,  1903.  at  the  hour  of  10:00 
o'clock  A.  AL,  at  the  same  place,  and  upon  the  said  Friday, 
the  3rd  day  of  July,  1903,  at  said  hour  and  place,  said  matter 
again  came  on  regularly  for  hearing  before  this  Court  and 
said  hearing  was  resumed. 

No  further  evidence  was  introduced,  and  said  matter  was 
thereupon  submitted  to  the  Court  for  consideration  and 
decision,  and  findings  of  fact  having  been  expressly  waived 
in  open  Court  by  all  parties  to  said  matter,  and  the  Court 
having  duly  and   fully  considered  the  same: 


DECEEE,  PRELIMINARY    PROVISIONS.  ^  37 

NOW  THEREFORE  IT  IS  HEREBY  DETERMINED, 
ORDERED,  ADJUDGED  AND  DECREED  AS  FOL- 
LOWS,  to-wit: 

That  the  petition  herein  was  duly  filed  in  this  Court 
on  the  16th  day  of  June,  1903,  and  thereupon  this  Court 
duly  made  its  order  fixing  the  time  and  place  for  the  hear- 
ing of  said  petition  and  matter,  and  ordering  the  Clerk  of  this 
Court  to  post  in  at  least  three  public  places  in  the  afore- 
said County  a  notice  of  the  filing  of  said  petition  and  of  the 
time  and  place  set  for  the  hearing  of  the  same,  attached  to  a 
copy  of*  said  petition,  and  ordering  that  a  copy  of  such 
notice  together  with  a  copy  of  said  petition  be  personally 
served  upon  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford,  and  upon  Jane  Lathrop 
Stanford  as  the  Surviving  Founder  of  the  Leland  Stanford 
Junior  L^niversity,  and  upon  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  as  the 
surviving  widow  of  Leland  Stanford,  deceased,  and  further 
ordering  that  such  notice  be  given,  posted  and  served  as 
required  by  law. 

That  thereafter  and  upon  the  said  16th  day  of  June,  1903, 
the  Clerk  of  this  Court  duly  made  and  posted  in  three 
public  places  in  said  County  notices  of  the  filing  of  said 
petition  and  of  the  time  and  place  set  for  the  hearing  of 
the  same,  attached  to  true  copies  of  said  petition,  and  upon 
the  same  day  true  copies  of  said  notice,  attached  to  true 
copies  of  said  petition  were  duly  served  upon  the  said  Jane 
Lathrop  Stanford  and  upon  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford 
as  the  Surviving  Founder  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
University,  and  upon  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  as  the 
surviving  widow  of  Leland  Stanford,  deceased. 

That  said  notice  so  posted  and  served  was,  in  substance 
and  form,  and  in  every  other  respect,  as  required  by  law 
and  by  said  order  of  this  Court,  and  particularly  as  pre- 
scribed by  that  certain  Act  of  the  Legislature  of  the  State 
of  California,  approved  February  10,  1903,  and  entitled: 

"An  act  to  provide  for  proceedings  for  the  ascertainment 
of  the  existence  and  terms  of,  and  for  the  determination  of 
the   valid  it  V  and   legal   effect  of  o-rants  or  other   instruments 


5^88476 


38  DECREE,  PRELIMINARY    PROVISIONS. 

creating,  changing  or  affecting  trusts  and  estates  for  the 
founding,  endowment  and  maintenance  of  a  university,  col- 
lege, school,  seminary  of  learning,  mechanical  institute,  mu- 
seum, gallery  of  art,  or  library,  or  any  other  institution,  or 
any  or  all  thereof  under  or  pursuant  to  an  act  entitled 
*An  act  to  advance  learning  the  arts  and  sciences,  and 
to  promote  the  public  welfare,  by  providing  for  the 
conveyance,  holding,  and  protection  of  property,  and  the 
creation  of  trusts  for  the  founding,  endowment,  erection, 
and  maintenance  within  this  State  of  universities,  colleges, 
schools,  seminaries  of  learning,  mechanical  institutes,  mu- 
seums, and  galleries  of  art,'  approved  ^larch  9,  1885*  or  under 
or  pursuant  to  an  act  entitled  \\n  act  to  encourage  and 
provide  for  the  dissemination  of  a  knowledge  of  the  arts, 
sciences,  and  general  literature,  and  the  founding,  maintain- 
ing, and  perpetuating  public  libraries,  museums,  and  galleries 
of  art,  and  the  receipt  of  donations  and  contributions  thereto 
when  established :  for  the  conveyance,  holding  and  protection 
of  real  property  within  this  State  suitable  for  the  purposes 
herein  designated,  and  the  erection  thereon  of  buildings 
appropriate  to  such  purposes,  and  for  the  creation  of  trusts 
necessary  or  proper  for  the  better  preservation  of  such  insti- 
tutions, and  the  control  and  management  thereof,'  approved 
March  5,  1887." 

That  said  notice  ol  tlie  filing  of  .>^ai(l  petition  and  of  the 
time  and  place  set  for  tlie  hearing  thereof  was  duly  given 
for  the  time  and  in  the  manner  pre-cribed  in  the  aforesaid 
Act,  and  was  posted  and  served  more  than  ten  days  before 
the  time  set  for  said  hearing. 

That  at  the  time  of  the  filing  of  said  petition  the  said 
Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  was  the  only  living  founder  or  sur- 
viving founder,  and  the  surviving  wife  or  widow  of  Leland 
Stanford,  her  co-founder  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  Uni- 
versity, and  the  only  living  grantor  or  donor  of  any  grant  or 
gife  set  out  in  said  petition. 

That  before  the  hearing  of  this  matter  the  said  Jane 
Lathrop    Stanford    duly    filed    herein    her    ^■erified    answer    to 


DECREE,  FOUNDING  GRANT,  39 

said  petition,  in  which  she,  individually  and  as  such  Surviving 
Founder,  and  as  such  surviving  widow,  admitted  each  and 
every  allegation  contained  in  said  petition  and  prayed  that 
the  prayer  of  said  petition  be  granted  and  that  the  Court 
make  and  render  such  further  order,  judgment,  decree  or 
relief  as  may  be  proper  in  the  premises. 

That  no  other  person  demurred  to  or  answered  said 
petition  or  appeared  in  said  matter,  or  took  part  in  the  hear- 
ing thereof. 

That  said  petition,  in  contents,  form,  substance  and  in 
every  other  particular,  complies  with  and  conforms  to  the 
requirements  of  the  aforesaid  Act  of  the  Legislature  of  the 
State  of  California ;  and  each  and  every  allegation  contained 
in  said  petit'ion  is  true  and  supported  by  the  evidence  offered 
and  received  upon  the  hearing  of  said  matter. 

That  the  said  Grant  dated  the  11th  day  of  November,. 
A.  D.  1885,  described  in,  and  a  copy  of  which  is  set  out  in 
the  said  petition  herein,  and  which  was  recorded  in  the  office 
of  the  Recorder  of  Santa  Clara  County,  State  of  California, 
in  liber  83  of  Deeds  at  page  23  and  following,  was  duly  and 
voluntarily  made,  signed  and  acknowledged  by  Leland  Stan- 
ford and  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford,  and  said  Grant  was,  on  the 
14th  day  of  November,  1885,  duly  and  voluntarily  delivered 
by  said  Leland  Stanford  and  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  to  the 
persons  therein  named  as  Trustees,  and  thereupon  and  there- 
after, the  said  persons  named  in  said  Grant  as  Trustees  duly 
accepted  in  writing  the  said  Grant  and  the  trusts  therein 
imposed,   as   alleged   in   said   petition. 

That  the  making,  signing,  execution,  acknowledgment 
and  delivery  of  said  Grant,  which  is  generally  known  as  and 
called  the  Founding  Grant,  were  the  due,  free  and  voluntary 
acts  of  each  of  said  grantors,  Leland  Stanford  and  jane 
Lathrop  Stanford  and.  at  the  time  of  the  performance  of 
each  of  said  acts,  each  of  said  grantors  was  of  sound  mind 
and  fully  competent  to  p'M-form  said  acts,  and  neither  of 
said  grantors  was  acting  under  duress,  menace,  fraud,  mis- 
take,  undue   inlluence,  or  other  disal)ility. 


40  DECREE,  FOUNDERS    AND    TRUSTEES. 

That  said  Founding-  Grant  was,  at  the  time  of  the  exe- 
cution and  delivery  thereof,  and  now  is,  valid  and  binding, 
and  the  full  legal  title  in  fee  simple  to  all  the  property 
described  or  referred  to  therein,  did,  upon  the  delivery  of 
said  Grant,  irrevocably  pass  to  and  vest  in  the  Trustees 
therein  named  upon  the  trusts  therein  provided,  and  the  full 
legal  title  in  fee  simple  to  all  said  property  is  now  vested 
in  and  said  property  now  belongs  to  the  said  Timothy  Hop- 
kins, Horace  Davis,  Thomas  B.  McFarland,  George  E.  Gray, 
William  M.  Stewart,  Joseph  D.  Grant,  Samuel  F.  Leib,  Leon 
Sloss,  Thomas  W.  Stanford,  Frank  Miller,  Charles  G.  Lath- 
rop,  Russell  J.  Wilson,  Whitelaw  Reid  and  George  E.  Cro- 
thers,  petitioners  herein,  as  Trustees  of  the  Leiand  Stanford 
Junior  Universit}",  as  the  survi\'ors  and  successors  of  the 
Trustees  named  in  said  Founding  Grant,  and  is  held  by 
said  Trustees  for  the  founding,  endowment,  maintenance 
.■and  benefit  of  the  Leiand  Stanford  Junior  L'niversity,  upon 
und  subject  to  the  trusts  hereinafter  set  forth. 

That  after  the  execution  and  delivery  of  said  Founding 
'Grant  the  said  Leiand  Stanford  and  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford, 
in  pursuance  of  the  terms  thereof,  erected  upon  the  Palo 
.\lto  Farm,  the  necessary  buildings  and  procured  the  neces- 
sary libraries,  laboratory  supplies  and  other  equipment  and 
established  the  said  Leiand  Stanford  Junior  University,  and, 
on  the  1st  day  of  October,  1891,  opened  said  institution  for 
the  reception  and  instruction  of  students,  and  thereafter  and 
until  the  death  of  said  Leiand  Stanford,  which  occured  on 
the  21st  day  of  June,  1893,  the  said  Leiand  Stanford  and 
Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  managed,  controlled  and  maintained 
said  University,  and  thereafter  and  until  the  1st  day  of 
June,  1903,  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  managed,  con- 
trolled and  maintained  said  University.  That  the  main  part 
of  the  said  University  is  situated  in  the  ^aid  County  of 
Santa  Clara,  upon  a  portion  of  the  lands  described  in  said 
Founding  Grant. 

That  the  following  is  a  list  of  the  persons  who  have  been 
named  and  ap])(>intcd  to  till  vacancies  occuring  in  the   Board 


DECREE,  TRUSTEES.  41 

of  Trustees  or  the  Leiand  Stanford  Junior  University  by 
reason  of  the  death  or  resignation  of  the  persons  named  as 
Trustees  of  said  University  in  said  Founding  Grant  or  by 
reason  of  the  death  or  resignation  of  persons  subsequently 
named  and  appointed  to  fill  such  vacancies,  and  also  the 
dates  of  the  appointment  of  each  person,  to-wit:  Horatio 
Stebbins,  named  and  appointed  November  12th,  1886;  Sam- 
uel F.  Leib,  April  22,  1891 ;  Joseph  D.  Gr^fnt,  April  22,  1891  ;- 
Leon  Sloss,  December  4,  1891 ;  Edward  R.  Taylor,  December 
4,  1891;  Charles  G.  Lathrop,  November  7,  1893;  Frank  Miller, 
November  7,  1893;  Thomas  W.  Stanford,  November  7,  1893; 
Josiah  W.  Stanford,  April  29,  1896;  Russell  J.  Wilson. 
February  2,  1897;  George  E.  Crothers,  October  3,  1902  and 
W'hitelaw  Reid,  October  3,  1902.  That  all  said  appointments 
made  before  the  21st  day  of  June,  1893  were  made  by  said 
Leiand  Stanford  and  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford,  and  all  said 
appointments  made  since  said  21st  da}^  of  June,  1893,  were 
made  by  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford.  That  all  said  appoint- 
ments were  duly  and  regularly  made  in  accordance  with 
law  and  with  the  provisions  of  said  Founding  Grant  and 
amendments  thereof,  as  alleged  in  said  petition,  and  were 
duly  accepted  by  said  persons  and  were  and  are  valid  and 
binding,  and  each  said  person  so  appointed,  at  the  time  of 
his  appointment,  received  and  became  vested  with  and  en- 
joyed the  same  rights,  powers,  privileges  and  duties  as  his 
co-trustees. 

That  the  following  Trustees  of  the  Leiand  Stanford 
Junior  University,  named  as  such  in  said  Founding  Grant, 
or  named  or  appointed  as  aforesaid  to  fill  vacancies  in  said 
Board  of  Trustees,  died  on  or  about  the  dates  following 
their  respective  names,  to-wit:  John  F.  Miller,  ]\Iarch  8. 
1886:  William  Ashburner,  April  20,  1887;  Henry  Vrooman, 
April  8.  1889;  Josiah  Stanford,  May  14,  1890;  Lorenzo  Saw- 
yer, September  7,  1891 ;  James  Mc.  M.  Shafter,  August  29, 
1892;  John  O.  Brown,  December  20,  1892 ;  Matthew  P.  Deady. 
March  24,  1893;  Alfred  L.  Tubbs,  December  26,  1896;  Charles 
F.  Crocker,  July  17,  1897;  Francis  E.  Spencer,  April  23,  1898: 


42       DECREE,  BEQUEST  OF  LELAND  STANFORD. 

Isaac  S.  Belcher,  November  30,  1898;  John  Boggs,  January 
30.  1899;  Charles  Goodall,  July  13,  1899;  H.  W.  Harkness, 
July  10,  1901;  Henry  L.  Dodge,  February  24,  1902  and 
Horatio  Stebbins,  April  9,  1902. 

That  of  the  persons  named  in  said  Founding  Grant  as 
Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,  Stephen 
J.  Field  resigned  as  one  of  such  Trustees  on  the  15th  day 
of  October,  1894, 'and  died  on  the  9th  day  of  April,  1899; 
Irving  M.  Scott  resigned  as  one  of  such  Trustees  on  the 
11th  day  of  May,  1898,  and  died  on  the  28th  day  of  April, 
1903  and  N.  W.  Spaulding  resigned  as  one  of  such  Trustees 
on  the  24th  day  of  April,  1903 ;  and  that  of  the  persons  named 
and  appointed  to  fill  vacancies  in  said  Board  of  Trustees, 
the  said  Josiah  W.  Stanford  resigned  as  one  of  such  Trustees 
on  the  31st  day  of  May,  1898,  and  the  said  Edward  R.  Taylor 
resigned  as  one  of  such  Trustees  on  the  9th  day  of  May, 
1899.  That  all  of  the  aforesaid  resignations  of  Trustees  were 
duly  and  regularly  made  and  accepted  in  accordance  with 
law  and  with  the  provisions  of  said  Founding  (irant,  as 
alleged  in  said  petition,  and  were  and  are  legal  and  binding, 
and  each  of  said  persons  so  resigning  ceased  to  be  a  Trustee 
of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  upon  the  date 
of  his  said  resignation. 

That  the  written  communication  dated  the  29th  day  of 
April,  1896,  which  is  described  in  and  a  copy  of  which  is 
set  out  in  said  petition,  in  and  by  which  the  said  Jane 
Lathrop  Stanford  made  a  proposal  and  ofifer  to  the  Trustees 
of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  to  settle  and  dis- 
charge the  bequest  of  two  and  one-half  million  dollars 
bequeathed  to  said  Trustees  by  tlic  last  will  of  said  Leland 
Stanford,  was  duly  and  voluntarily  made,  signed  and  deliv- 
ered to  said  Trustees  on  the  date  thereof,  and  upon  the  same 
date  said  proposition  and  offer  was  duly  accepted  by  said 
Trustees  and  thereupon  became  and  was  valid  and  binding 
and  the  property  described  in  said  communication  was  thcrc- 
u]K)n  delivered  in  accordance  with  the  terms  thereof;  and 
upr)n    the    consummation    f»f    said    settlement,    the    full    legal 


DECREE,  GRANTS  OF  JANE  L.  STANFORD.       43 

title  to  all  the  property  described  in  said  communication 
passed  to  and  vested  in  the  persons  who  then  were  the  Trus- 
tees of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,  upon  the 
trusts  provided  in  said  Founding  Grant,  and  said  property 
or  the  proceeds  thereof  and  the  property  acquired  in  exchange 
therefor  or  with  the  proceeds  thereof,  so  far  as  hereinafter 
described,  now  belongs  to,  and  the  full  legal  title  thereto 
is  vested  in  the  aforesaid  Trustees,  petitioners  herein,  and 
is  held  by  them  for  the  founding,  endowment,  maintenance 
and  benefit  of  the  said  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University 
upon  and  subject  to  the  trusts  hereinafter  set  forth. 

That  the  following  described  deeds  and  conveyances, 
which  are  described  in  and  copies  of  which  are  set  out  in 
said  petition,  were  duly  and  voluntarily  made,  signed  and 
acknowledged  by  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford,  and  each 
of  said  deeds  and  each  of  said  conveyances  was  duly  and 
voluntarily  made,  signed  and  acknowledged  by  the  said  Jane 
Lathrop  Stanford  and  delivered  by  her  to  the  Trustees  of 
the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  upon  the  dates  below 
stated,  to-wit :  The  deed  conveying  the  Stanford  residence 
and  lot  in  San  Francisco,  dated  the  11th  day  of  February, 
1897  and  made,  signed,  acknowledged  and  delivered  on  said 
date ;  the  conveyance  of  certain  contents  of  the  Stanford 
homes,  dated  the  11th  day  of  February,  1897,  and  made, 
signed,  acknowledged  and  delivered  on  said  date ;  the  con- 
\eyance  of  certain  bonds  and  other  personal  property,  dated 
the  1st  day  of  June,  1897,  and  made,  signed,  acknowledged 
and  delivered  on  said  date;  the  deed  conveying  certain  prop- 
erty in  San  ]\Iateo  and  Santa  Clara  Counties,  dated  the  17th 
day  of  January,  1899,  and  made,  signed,  acknowledged  and 
delivered  on  the  27th  day  of  January,  1899;  the  deed  con- 
A-eying  certain  property  in  Tehama  County,  dated  the  17th 
day  of  January,  1899.  and  made,  signed,  acknowledged  and 
delivered  on  the  27th  day  of  January,  1899;  the  deed  convey- 
ing, and  confirming  the  previous  conveyance  of  certain  per- 
sonal prcipcrty  and  certain  real  ])r()perties  in  various  counties 
of   California,    elated    the    olsi    dav    of    Mav,    18*/"*,   and    made. 


44       DECEEK.  GRANTS  OP  J  AXE  L.  STANFORD. 

signed,  acknowledged  and  delivered  on  said  date ;  the  deed 
conveying  certain  property  in  Tehama  County,  dated  the  6th 
day  of  June,  1899,  and  made,  signed  and  acknowledged  on 
said  date  and  delivered  on  or  about  said  date ;  the  deed  con- 
veying certain  property  in  Lassen  County,  dated  the  6th 
day  of  June,  1899,  and  made,  signed  and  acknowledged  on 
said  date  and  delivered  on  or  about  said  date ;  the  deed  of 
grant  conveying  and  confirming  the  previous  conveyance  of 
the  Stanford  residence  and  lot  in  San  Francisco,  dated  the 
9th  day  of  December,  1901,  and  made,  signed,  acknowledged 
and  delivered  on  said  date ;  the  deed  of  grant  conveying  and 
confirming  the  previous  conveyance  of  certain  real  properties 
in  various  counties  of  California,  dated  the  9th  day  of  Decem- 
ber, 1901,  and  made,  signed,  acknowledged  and  delivered 
on  said  date ;  the  deed  of  gift  conveying,  and  confirming 
the  previous  conveyance  of  various  bonds,  stocks  and  other 
properties,  dated  the  9th  day  of  December,  1901,  and  made, 
signed,  acknowledged  and  delivered  on  said  date. 

That  each  of  the  above  described  deeds  and  conveyances 
was  duly  accepted  by  the  Trustees  therein  named,  upon  the 
date  of  the  delivery  thereof  as  above  stated. 

That  each  of  the  above  described  deeds  and  conveyances 
was,  upon  the  execution  and  delivery  thereof,  and  now  is, 
^•alid  and  binding,  and  the  full  legal  title  in  fee  simple  to 
all  the  property  therein  described  or  referred  to,  did,  upon 
the  delivery  thereof,  pass  to  or  was  confirmed  in,  and  did 
vest  in  the  Trustees  therein  named  upon  the  trusts  and  sul)- 
ject  to  all  the  reservations,  terms  and  conditions  therein 
provided.  That  all  the  property  described  or  referred  to  in 
each  of  the  above  described  deeds  and  conveyances,  or  the 
proceeds  of  said  property,  and  the  property  acquired  in  ex- 
change for  said  property  or  with  the  proceeds  thereof,  so 
far  as  hereinafter  described,  now  belongs  to  and  the  full  legal 
title  thereto  is  \'ested  in  the  aforesaid  'J'rustces,  ]-»ctitioners 
herein,  and  is  held  by  them  for  the  founding,  endowment, 
maintenance  and  benefit  of  the  said  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
Uni\-orsity,  upon  and  subject  to  the  trusts  hereinafter  set 
forth. 


DECREE,  ADDRESSES   OF   JANE   L.  STANFORD.  45 

That  the  address  delivered  by  the  said  Jane  Lathrop 
Stanford  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  Uni- 
versity on  the  11th  day  of  February,  1897,  a  copy  of  which 
is  set  out  in  said  petition,  and  the  instrument  in  the  form 
of  a  letter,  dated  the  1st  day  of  June,  1897,  a  copy  of  which 
is  set  out  in  said  petition,  and  the  instrument  in  the  form 
of  an  address  dated  the  31st  day  of  ]\'Iay,  1899,  made  and 
delivered  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  Uni- 
versity by  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  on  said  day,  a 
copy  of  which  is  set  forth  in  said  petition,  were  not,  nor  was 
any  of  them,  properly  executed  by  the  said  Jane  Lathrop 
Stanford  so  as  to  amend  or  altect  the  trusts  established  by 
said  Founding  Grant,  and  all  the  amendments  proposed  or 
suggested  by  said  instruments  were  embodied  in  other  valid 
and   properly   executed    instruments. 

That  the  instrument  in  the  form  of  an  address,  dated 
the  1st  day  of  June,  1897,  described  in  and  a  copy  of  which 
is  set  out  in  said  petition,  was  duly  and  voluntarily  made, 
signed  and  acknowledged  by  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford 
on  said  1st  day  of  June,  1897  and  was  duly  and  voluntarily 
delivered  by  her  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford 
Junior  University  on  that  day ;  and,  by  virtue  of  the  powers 
and  privileges  reserved  to  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford 
in  and  by  the  aforesaid  Founding  Grant  and  by  the  Act  of 
the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  California  under  and  in  accord- 
ance with  which  said  Leland  Stanford  Junior  L^niversity  was 
founded,  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford,  in  and  by  the  said 
instrument,  duly  and  regularly  amended  the  said  trusts  set 
out  in  and  established  by  said  Founding  Grant,  and  all  of 
said  amendments  were  valid  and  binding  and  are  herein- 
after set  forth. 

That  by  virtue  of  the  powers  and  privileges  reserved 
to  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  in  and  by  the  said  Found- 
ing Grant  and  by  the  Act  of  the  Legislature  under  and  in 
accordance  with  which  said  Leland  Stanford  Junior  Univer- 
sity was  founded,  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford,  in  and 
by  the  aforesaid  deed  dated,  made,  signed,  acknowledged  and 


46  DECREE.    MAMAL     DKLI  VI:RV     OF     BONDS. 

delivered  by  her  on  the  31st  day  of  I\Iay,  1899,  duly  and 
regularly  amended  the  said  trusts  set  out  in  and  established 
by  said  Founding  Grant  and  the  amendments  thereof  made 
on  the  said  1st  day  of  June,  1897,  as  hereinabove  stated. 
That  all  of  said  amendments  so  made  in  and  by  said  deed 
dated  the  31st  day  of  May,  1899,  were  valid  and  binding  and 
are  hereinafter  set  forth. 

That  the  Instrument  executed  by  the  said  Jane  Lathrop 
Stanford  in  the  City  of  New  York,  on  the  9th  day  of  July, 
1900,  a  copy  of  which  is  set  out  in  said  petition,  was  duly 
and  voluntarily  made  and  executed  by  the  said  Jane  Lathrop 
Stanford  on  said  date  and  on  the  same  day  she  duly  and 
voluntarily  delivered  said  instrument  to  S.  F.  Leib  as  Pres- 
ident of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford 
Junior  Universit}'.  and  for  and  on  behalf  of  said  Trustees, 
and  at  the  same  time  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  deliv- 
ered into  the  manual  possession  and  control  of  the  said  S.  F. 
Leib  as  such  President,  and  for  and  on  behalf  of  said 
Trustees,  all  of  the  bonds  described  in  said  instrument;  and 
the  said  S.  F.  Leib  did  thereupon  receive  and  take  possession 
of  said  instrument  and  said  bonds  on  behalf  of  said  Trustees; 
that  said  instnnnent  was  and  is  valid  and  binding,  and  upon 
the  delivery  of  said  instrument  and  of  said  bonds,  all  the 
right,  title  and  interest  which  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stan- 
ford then  had  in  or  to  said  bonds,  passed  to  and  \csted  in 
said  Trustees,  and  the  entire  legal  title  to  all  said  bonds  is 
now  vested  in  and  said  bonds  belong  to  the  aforesaid 
Trustees,  petitioners  herein,  and  arc  held  by  them  for  the 
founding,  endowment,  maintenance  and  benefit  of  the  said 
Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  upon  and  subject  to  the 
trusts  hereinafter  set   forth. 

That  the  instrument  executed  by  Charles  G.  Lathrop 
in  the  name  and  on  behalf  of  said  Jane  Lathrop  .Stanford, 
on  the  23rd  day  of  July,  1^01,  a  copy  of  which  is  set  out  in 
said  petition,  was  duly  and  regularly  delivered  by  the  said 
Charles  G.  Lathrop  on  the  said  23rd  day  of  July,  1901  to 
S.    F.    Leib   as    President   of   the    Board   of   Trustees   of   the 


DECREE,  CORPORATE    POWERS.  47 

Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,  and  for  and  on  behalf  of 
said  Trustees,  and  at  the  same  time  the  said  Charles  G.  Lath- 
rop  as  the  act  and  on  behalf  of  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stan- 
ford, duly  delivered  into  the  manual  possession  of  said  S.  F. 
Leib,  as  such  President,  and  for  and  on  behalf  of  said  Trus- 
tees, all  of  the  bonds  described  in  said  instrument  and  all 
of  the  bonds  described  in  the  aforesaid  instrument  executed 
by  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  on  the  9th  day  of  July, 
1900.  That  the  execution  and  delivery  of  said  instrument, 
dated  on  the  23rd  day  of  July,  1901,  and  the  delivery  of  the 
aforesaid  bonds  therewith,  were  duly  authorized  by  and  were 
the  acts  of  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford,  and  were  legal  and 
binding,  and  upon  the  delivery  of  said  instrument  and  of 
said  bonds,  all  the  right,  title  and  interest  which  the  said 
Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  then  had  in  or  to  said  bonds,  passed 
to  and  vested  in  the  said  Trustees,  and  the  entire  legal  title 
to  all  said  bonds  is  now  vested  in  and  said  bonds  belong 
to  the  aforesaid  Trustees,  petitioners  herein,  and  are  held  by 
them  for  the  founding,  endowment,  maintenance  and  benefit 
of  the  said  Lniversity,  upon  and  subject  to  the  trusts  here- 
inafter set  forth. 

That  on  the  6th  day  of  November,  1900,  the  Constitu- 
tion of  the  State  of  California  was  duly  and  regularly  amend- 
ed by  the  addition  of  a  section  thereto  which  is  designated 
and  known  as  Section  10  of  Article  IX  of  said  Constitution. 
That  said  constitutional  amendment  permitted,  approved  and 
confirmed  all  the  trusts,  estates,  terms  and  conditions  of 
the  said  Founding  Grant  and  of  all  the  aforesaid  deeds, 
conveyances  and  other  instruments  which  were  made  and 
delivered  before  said  6th  day  of  November,  1900. 

That  the  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  l"ni- 
versity  were  granted  certain  corporate  powers  by  a  certain 
Act  of  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  California,  approved 
February  14,  1901.  entitled  "An  Act  granting  to  the  Trus- 
tees of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  corporate 
powers  and  privileges."  That  under  and  by  virtue  of  said 
Act,  the  said  Trustees  of  the  Leland   Stanford  Junior  Uni- 


48  DECREE,  AMENDMENTS    OF    OCTOBER    3,  1902. 

vcrsity  duly  organized  as  a  Board  and  elected  such  officers 
as  they  deemed  necessary,  and  by  an  instrument  in  writing 
dated  the  1st  day  of  Xovember,  1901,  a  copy  of  which  is 
set  forth  in  said  petition,  and  duly  made,  executed  and  ac- 
knowledged by  each  and  every  one  of  said  Trustees,  organ- 
ized said  Board  of  Trustees  and  accepted  and  assumed  all 
the  powers  and  privileges  granted  in  said  act,  and  provided 
and  specified  the  business,  acts  and  powers  which  said  Board 
and  the  officers  thereof  might  transact,  perform  and  exercise. 
That  the  said  assumption  of  the  powers  and  privileges  grant- 
ed in  said  Act  of  the  Legislature,  and  the  organization  of 
said  Trustees  thereunder,  were  acquiesced  in,  consented  to 
and  approved  in  a  writing  duly  and  voluntarily  executed, 
acknowledged  and  delivered  by  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stan- 
ford and  forming  part  of  said  instrument  so  executed  by 
said  trustees.  That  upon  the  said  acceptance  and  assump- 
tion of  the  powers  and  privileges  granted  in  said  Act,  ancl 
the  acquiesence  in,  consent  to  and  approval  of  the  same 
by  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford,  the  said  Trustees  of  the 
Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  became,  and  now  is,  a 
body  corporate,  with  the  right  and  power  to  perform  in  a 
corporate  capacity  all  the  powers  and  duties  enjoined  upon 
and  vesting  in  the  said  Trustees ;  and  the  trusts  set  out  in 
and  established  by  the  said  Founding  Grant  and  the  amend- 
ments of  such  trusts  were  further  amended  so  far  as  neces- 
sary to  give  effect  to  the  terms  of  said  instrument  dated 
the    1st   day  of   November,    1901. 

That  the  instrument  in  the  form  of  an  address,  dated 
tlie  3r(l  da}'  of  October,  1902,  described  in  and  a  copy  of 
which  is  set  out  in  said  i)etition,  was  duly  and  voluntarily 
made,  signed  and  acknowledged  by  the  said  Jane  Lathrop 
Stanford  on  said  3rd  day  of  October,  1902,  and  was  duly  and 
voluntarily  delivered  by  her  to  said  Trustees  of  the  Leland 
Stanford  Junior  University  on  said  date;  and,  by  virtue  of 
the  powers  and  privileges  reserved  to  the  said  Jane  Lathrop 
Stanford  in  and  by  the  aforesaid  Founding  Grant  and  by 
the   Act   of  the    Legislature   of  the   State  of  California   under 


DECREE.  AMENDMENTS    OF    TRUSTS.  49 

and  in  accordance  with  which  said  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
University  was  founded,  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford,  in 
and  by  said  instrument,  duly  and  regularly  amended  the 
said  trusts  set  out  in  and  established  by  said  Founding 
Grant,  and  the  amendments  thereof  heretofore  stated.  That 
all  of  said  amendments  so  made  in  and  by  said  instrument 
in  the  form  of  an  address,  dated  the  3rd  day  of  October,  1902, 
were  and  are  valid  and  binding  and  are  hereinafter  set  forth. 

That  the  said  instrument  of  surrender,  resignation  and 
grant,  dated  the  1st  day  of  June,  1903,  described  in  and  a 
copy  of  which  is  set  out  in  said  petition,  was  duly  and  vol- 
untarily made,  signed  and  acknowledged  by  the  said  Jane 
Lathrop  Stanford  on  said  1st  day  of  June,  1903,  and  duly 
and  voluntarily  delivered  by  her  to  said  Trustees  of  the  said 
Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  on  said  date,  and  there- 
upon the  said  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford 
Junior  University  duly  and  regularly,  by  resolution  and  in 
writing,  accepted  said  instrument  and  accepted  and  assumed 
the  powers  and  duties  thereby  devolving  upon  said  Trustees. 
That  in  and  by  said  instrument  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stan- 
ford duly  and  regularly  amended  the  said  trusts  set  out  in 
and  established  by  said  Founding  Grant  and  the  amendments 
of  said  trusts  made  prior  to  said  1st  day  of  June,  1903; 
and  that  all  the  amendments  so  made  by  said  instrument 
dated  the  1st  day  of  June,  1903,  were  and  are  valid  and 
binding   and   are   hereinafter   set   forth. 

That  the  said  instrument  of  surrender,  resignation  and 
grant,  dated  the  1st  day  of  June.  1903,  as  a  whole,  and  each 
and  every  part,  provision,  condition  and  trust  thereof,  w^as, 
at  the  time  of  the  delivery  thereof,  and  now  is,  valid  and 
binding,  and  upon  the  delivery  thereof  all  the  right,  title 
and  interest  which  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  then 
had  in  or  to  any  of  the  property  therein  described  or  referred 
to,  including  all  the  property  hereinafter  described,  irre- 
vocably passed  to  and  vested  in.  and  all  said  property  now 
belongs  to.  the  said  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
Unixersity.    j^ctitioners   herein,   and   is   held   by   them   for   the 


51)        1)i:cri-:k,  assu]N[ptiox  of  control  by  truhtees. 

foundini^-.  endowment,  maintenance  and  l)cnetit  of  the 
said  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  upon  and  subject 
to  the  trusts  hereinafter  set  forth,  subject  only  to  the  right 
of  the  said  jane  Lathrop  Stanford  t(^  liaxe.  hold,  use  and 
enjoy  during  her  natural  life  the  home  and  premises  situ- 
ated on  the  Southwest  corner  of  Powell  and  California 
Streets  in  the  Lit}'  and  County  of  San  l-'rancisco.  State  of 
California,  and  more  particularly  described  in  subdivision 
"P>"  of  the  description  of  property  hereinafter  set  forth, 
and  all  the  furniture,  household  effects,  paintings,  pictures, 
books,  statuary,  works  of  art,  bric-a-brac,  and  other  effects, 
now  contained  in  said  home  and  in  the  home  of  the  said 
Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  situated  on  said  Palo  Alto  I'arm. 

That  upon  the  deli^■ery  of  the  said  instrument  of  sur- 
render, resignation  and  grant,  dated  the  first  day  of  June, 
1903,  all  the  i)Owers,  privileges  and  duties  reserved  to  or 
vesting  in  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  over  or  concerning 
the  trusts  created  for  the  founding,  endowment,  maintenance 
or  benefit  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  L^niversity,  including 
tlie  right  to  amend  or  modify  said  trusts,  and  over,  in  or 
concerning  the  property  held  in  trust  for  the  founding, 
endowment,  maintenance  or  benefit  of  said  University,  in- 
cluding all  the  property  hereinafter  described,  and  over,  in  or 
concerning  the  said  University  or  any  department  thcrof, 
immediately  ceased  and  terminated. 

That  c\ery  act  herein  found  or  stated  to  have  been  done 
or  ])erfornu'(l  by  the  said  jane  Lathrop  Stanford  was  done 
or  performed  l)y  her  of  her  own  free  will,  and  at  the  time 
when  each  said  act  was  done  or  performed  the  said  Jane 
Lathrop  Stanford  was  of  sound  mind  and  fully  com])etent  to 
pcrftirm  said  act  and  was  not  acting  under  duress,  menace, 
fraud,   mi^talce.  undue  inlluence  or  au}-  other   legal   disability. 

That  all  of  the  following  described  ])ro])ert}-,  all  of  which 
\vas  described  in  and  claimed  1)\-  the  said  Trustees,  petitioners 
herein,  in  said  ])etition.  is  now  in  the  ])ossession  of  and  under 
the  control  of  the  said  Timoth\-  ilojikins,  ilorace  Davis, 
Thomas  P.  Mch'arland.  ( ieorge  1'^  ( irav,  W  illiani   M .  Stewart, 


DECEEE,  DESCRIPTIOX    AND    TITLE    OF    PROPERTY.         51 

Joseph  D.  Grant,  Samuel  F.  Leib,  Leon  Sloss,  Thomas  W. 
Stanford,  Frank  Miller,  Charles  G.  Lathrop,  Russell  J.  Wilson, 
Whitelaw  Reid  and  George  E.  Crothers,  as  Trustees  of  the 
Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,  to-wit : 

REAL  PROPERTY. 

A 

(Property  conveyed  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  by  the 
Founding  Grant.) 

B 
(San  Francisco  Residence  Property.) 

C 

(Real  Estate  in  the  Counties  of  San  Francisco.  San 
Mateo,  Santa  Clara,  Tehama,  Napa,  Contra  Costra,  Siskiyou, 
Colusa,  Glenn,  Madera,  San  Luis  Obispo,  San  Bernardino, 
Alameda,  Marm,  State  of  California.) 

D 

(Real  Estate  in  the  County  of  Tehama,  State  of  Cali- 
fornia.) 

E 
(Real    Estate    in    the    County   of    Lassen,    State   of   Cali- 
fornia.) 

F 
(Real   Estate   in  the  Counties  of  Alameda,  Yolo,  Contra 
Costa,  Santa  Clara  and  Lassen,  State  of  California.) 

G 

(Real  Estate  in  the  Counties  of  Santa  Clara  and  San 
Mateo,  State  of  California.) 

H 

(Capital  Stock  of  Corporations.) 

I 

(Bonds  and  Certificates.) 

J 

(Other  Personal  Property.) 


52  DECREE,  SUOCEfc?SIOX    TO    TITLE. 

That  all  of  the  above  described  property  is  now  owned 
by,  and  the  full  legal  title  in  fee  simple  to  all  said  property 
is  vested  in,  the  said  Timothy  Hopkins,  Horace  Davis, 
Thomas  B.  McFarland,  George  E.  Gray,  William  M.  Stewart, 
Joseph  D.  Grant,  Samuel  F.  Leib,  Leon  Sloss,  Thos.  W.  Stan- 
ford Frank  jMiller,  Charles  G.  Lathrop,  Russell  J.  Wilson, 
Whitelaw  Reid  and  George  E.  Crothers,  as  Trustees  of  the 
Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,  and  is  held  by  them  for 
the  founding,  endowment,  maintenance  and  benefit  of  the  said 
Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  upon  and  subject  to  the 
trusts  hereinafter  set  forth,  subject  only  to  the  right  of  the 
said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  to  have,  hold,  use  and  enjoy 
during  her  natural  life  the  home  and  premises  situated  on 
the  southwest  corner  of  Powell  and  California  streets,  in  the 
City  and  Count}^  of  San  Francisco,  State  of  California,  and 
more  particularly  described  in  subdivision  "B"  of  the  fore- 
going description  of  property,  and  all  the  furniture,  house- 
hold effects,  paintings,  pictures,  books,  statuary,  works  of 
art,  bric-a-brac  and  other  effects  now  contained  in  said  home 
and  in  the  home  of  the  said  jane  Lathrop  Stanford  situated 
on  said  Palo  Alto  Farm. 

That  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  has  no  right,  title 
or  interest  in,  or  power  over,  any  of  the  above  described 
property,  either  individually  or  as  Surviving  Founder  of 
said  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,  or  as  widow,  devisee 
or  legatee  of  the  said  Leland  Stanford,  excepting  as  stated  in 
the  preceding  paragraph. 

That  all  of  the  above  described  proi)erty  constitutes  a 
single  trust  fund. 

That  the  said  Timothy  Hopkins,  Horace  Davis,  Thomas 
B.  McFarland,  George  E.  Gray,  William  ]\L  Stewart,  Joseph 
D.  Grant,  Samuel  F.  Leib,  Leon  Sloss,  Thomas  W.  Stanford, 
Frank  Miller,  Charles  G.  Lathrop,  Russell  J.  Wilson.  White- 
law  Reid  and  George  E.  Crothers,  petitioners  herein,  consti- 
tute the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
University,  and  they  are  the  survivors  and  successors  of  the 
Trustees  named  or  referred  to  in  each  of  the  grants,  deeds, 
conveyances   and   other    instruments   herein   referred   to,   and 


DECEEE,  THE  FOUNDING  GEANT.  53 

they  are  the  Trustees  of  all  trusts  created  by  said  grants, 
deeds,  conveyances  and  other  instruments,  and  are  the  Trus- 
tees of  all  the  trusts  hereinafter  set  forth. 

That  all  of  the  trusts  set  forth  in  and  created  by  said 
Founding  Grant  and  all  of  the  amendments  and  modifications 
of  said  trusts  are  hereinafter  quoted  from,  and  set  forth  in, 
the  language  of  the  Grant,  deed,  address  or  other  instrument 
creating  said  trusts,  amendments  or  modifications,  and  the 
said  trusts  as  so  amended  are  the  trusts  upon  which  all  of 
th«?  property  herein  described  is  held. 

I. 
That  the  following  are  all  of  the  trusts  set  forth  in  and 
created  by  said  Founding  Grant,  dated  the  11th  day  of  Novem- 
ber, 1885,  and  executed  and  delivered  by  the  said  Leland  Stan- 
ford and  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford,  to-wit: 

GRANT 

FOUNDING    AND    ENDOWING 

THE    LELAND    STANFORD    JUNIOR    UNIVERSITY. 

We  LELAND  STANFORD  and  JANE  LATHROP 
STANFORD,  husband  and  wife,  grantors,  desiring  to  pro- 
mote the  public  welfare  by  founding,  endowing  and  having 
maintained  upon  our  estate  known  as  the  Palo  Alto  Farm, 
and  situated  in  the  counties  of  San  Mateo  and  Santa  Clara, 
State  of  California,  United  States  of  America,  a  Universit}'- 
for  both  sexes,  with  the  Colleges,  Schools,  Seminaries  of 
Learning,  ^Mechanical  Institutes,  Museums,  Galleries  of  Art, 
and  all  other  things  necessary  and  appropriate  to  a  Uni- 
versity of  high  degree,  to  that  end,  and  for  that  purpose,  do 
hereby  grant,  bargain,  sell  and  convey  to  Lorenzo  Sawyer, 
H.  \\'.  Harkness,  James  Mc?^l.  Shafter,  Josiah  Stanford, 
Charles  Goodall,  Florace  Davis,  Alfred  L.  Tubbs.  John  F. 
Miller,  Francis  E.  Spencer,  John  Boggs,  Henr}-  A^rooman. 
T.  r..  McFarland,  Charles  F.  Crocker,  Isaac  S.  lielcher.  Tim- 
othy Hopkins,  John  O.  Brown,  Ilenry  L.  Dodge.  George  E. 


54  D  K( '  \l  V.  K.  T 1 1 1-;   FOUNDING   GRANT. 

Gray,  Irving-  ^I.  Scott,  X.  W.  Spaulding",  ^^"illiam  Ashbiirncr 
of  California,  Matthew  P.  Deady  of  Oregon,  William  M. 
Stewart  of  Nevada,  and  Stephen  J.  P'ield,  a  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  Cnited  States,  Trustees,  and  to  their 
successors  forever,  all  and  singular  tiic  following  described 
property : 

That  certain  tract  of  land,  situate  in  the  County  of  J^)Utte, 
State  of  California,  and  now  commonly  known  and  designated 
as  Stanford's  Gridley  Farm. 

Also  that  certain  tract  of  land  situated  partly  in  the  said 
County  of  Butte,  and  partly  in  the  County  of  Tehama,  in 
said  State,  and  now  commonly  known  and  desig^nated  as 
Stanford's  Vina  Farm. 

And  also  that  certain  tract  of  land  situated  partly  in  the 
County  of  Santa  Clara  and  partly  in  the  County  of  San 
Mateo,  and  now  commonly  known  and  designated  as  the 
Palo  Alto  Farm. 

Together  with  all  the  tenements,  hereditaments  and 
appurtenances  thereunto  belonging,  with  the  water  rights, 
water  ditches,  pipes,  flumes,  canals,  aqueducts  and  reservoirs 
now  used  in  connection  with  either  of  said  tracts  of  land : 
said  tracts  of  land  being  more  particularly  described  by 
metes  and  bounds  in  the  paper  hereto  attached,  marked 
"Schedule  A"  and  made  part  liereof. 

To  have  and  to  hold  said  pro])cr1v.  and  all  other  i)rop- 
erty,  real  and  personal,  whicii  we.  or  either  of  us,  may  here- 
after convey  or  devise  to  ihem  or  their  successors  upon  the 
trust  that  it  shall  constitute  the  fonndation  and  endowniejit 
for  the  University  herein  ])rovided,  and  u])on  the  trust  that 
the  principal  thereof  shall  forever  remain  intact,  and  that 
the  rents,  issues  and  profits  thereof  shall  be  devoted  to  the 
foundation  and  maintenance  of  the  University  hereby  founded 
and  endowed,  and  to  the  uses  and  purposes  herein  mentioned. 

Xow  therefore,  further  in  ])ursuance  of  said  desire,  and 
that  the  trust  hereby  created' may  be  executed  according  to  the 
wishes  of  the  grantors  and  each  of  them,  they  do  hereby,  as  it 
is  provided  may  l)e  done  by  the  Act  (jf  the  Legislature  of  the 
State  of  California,  approved  Aiarch  9th,   1883,  entitled  "An 


DECRKK,   THK    FOrXDIXG    (JRAXT.  55 

act  to  achance  learning,  the  arts  and  sciences,  and  to  promote 
the  public  welfare,  by  providing  for  the  conveyance,  holding 
and  protection  of  property,  and  the  creation  of  trusts  for  the 
founding,  endowment,  erection  and  maintenance  within  this 
State  of  universities,  colleges,  schools,  seminaries  of  learning, 
mechanical  institutes,  museums  and  galleries  of  art," 
designate : 

First. 

THE    NATURE.    OBJECT    AXD    PURPOSES    OF    THE 
INSTITUTION    HEREPiY    FOUNDED,    TO    BE: 

Its  nature,  that  of  a  university  with  such  seminaries  of 
learning  as  shall  make  it  of  the  highest  grade,  includmg 
mechanical  institutes,  museums,  galleries  of  art,  laboratories, 
and  conservatories,  together  with  all  things  necessary  for  the 
study  of  agriculture  in  all  its  branches,  and  for  mechanical" 
training,  and  the  studies  and  exercises  directed  to  the  culti- 
vation and  enlargement  of  the  mind ; 

Its  object,  to  qualify  its  students  for  personal  success^ 
and  direct  usefulness  in  life  ; 

And  its  purposes,  to  promote  the  public  welfare  by  exer- 
cising an  influence  in  behalf  of  humanity  and  civilization, 
teaching  the  blessings  of  liberty  regulated  by  law,  and  incul- 
cating love  and  reverence  for  the  great  principles  of  govern- 
ment as  deri\ed  from  the  inalienable  rights  of  man  to  life, 
liberty  and  the  pursuit  of  happiness. 

Second.  i 

THE  NAME  OF  THE  INSTITUTION. 

Since  the  idea  of  establishing  an  institution  of  this  kind 
for  the  benefit  of  mankind  came  directly  and  largely  from 
our  son  and  only  child  LELAND.  and  in  the  belief  that  had 
he  been  spared  to  advise  us  as  to  the  disposition  of  our  estate 
he  would  have  desired  the  dcxotion  of  a  large  portion  thereof 
to  this  ]mr])ose.  we  will  that  for  all  time  to  come  the  institu- 
tion hereby  founded  shall  l)car  his  name,  and  shall  be 
known  as 


56  DECREE,  THE    FOUNDING    GRANT. 

THE    LELAND    STANFORD    JUNIOR    UNR'ERSITY. 

Third. 

THE    NUMBER,    QUORUM    AND    DESIGNATION    OF 
THE    TRUSTEES. 

The  number  of  the  Trustees  shall  be  twenty-four,  and 
fifteen  thereof  shall  constitute  a  quorum,  but  the  assent  of 
not  less  than  a  majority  of  the  whole,  to-wit:  thirteen,  shall 
be  necessary  for  affirmative  action  in  the  execution  of  the 
trusts  herein  contained. 

The  Trustees  herein  named  and  their  successors,  in  their 
collective  capacit}-,  shall  be  known  and  designated  as  "The 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University." 

Fourth. 

That  the  Trustees  (subject  to  the  reservations  and  to 
the  rights  to  alter  and  amend  hereinafter  contained)  shall 
liave  power,  and  it  shall  be  iheir  duty : 

1.  To  meet  m  the  City  of  San  Francisco  on  the  four- 
teenth day  of  November,  18S5,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  prac- 
ticable, and  then  and  there  a  majority  of  their  number  being 
present,  to  organize  as  a  Board  by  electing  one  of  their 
number  Chairman,  and  to  transact  such  other  business  as 
ma}'  be  proper. 

2.  To  manage  and  control  the  institution  hereby 
founded. 

3.  To  manage  and  control  the  trust  proi)crty,  care  for 
and  improve  the  same,  operate  or  lease  it  and  apply  the  net 
proceeds  or  profits  thereof  to  the  purposes  of  the  trust 
hereby  created. 

4.  To.  in  their  discretion,  receive  grants  of  property 
from  others  in  aid  of  the  institution  founded,  or  to  establish 
Scht^larships  therein. — providing  the  same  are  made  upon 
ternis  and  condition  in  harmony  with  the  purposes  of  the 
Institution  as  herein  declared. 

5.  To  receive  from  the  grantors,  or  either  of  them,  by 
grant  or  devise,  such  other  property  as  the  grantors  or  either 


DECEEE,   THE    FOUXDIXG    GRANT.  57 

of  them  may  hereafter  elect  to  give,  and  to  hold  such  prop- 
ert}^  upon  the  same  conditions  and  to  the  same  uses  and 
trusts,  as  are  herein  prescribed. 

6.  To  make  By-Laws  not  inconsistent  with  the  laws  ot 
this  State,  or  the  purposes  of  this  grant,  for  the  government 
of  the   Institution  hereby  founded. 

7.  To  make  rules  and  regulations  for  the  management 
of  the  trust  property. 

8.  To  keep  a  full  and   fair  record  of  their  proceedings. 

9.  To  appoint  a  President  of  the  University,  w^ho  shall 
not  be  one  of  their  number,  and  to  remove  him  at  will. 

10.  To  employ  professors  and  teachers  at  the  Universit3^ 

11.  To  fix  the  salaries  of  the  President,  professors  and 
teachers,  and  to  fix  them  at  such  rates  as  will  secure  to  the 
University  the  services  of  men  of  the  very  highest  attain- 
ments. 

12.  To  use  the  rents,  issues  and  profits  of  the  trust 
property  (but  no  part  of  the  principal)  in  the  execution  of 
their  trust,  and  in  case  such  rents,  issues,  and  profits,  for  any 
one  year,  exceed  the  amount  necessary  to  execute  the  trust, 
and  maintain  the  Institution  for  said  year,  then  to  invest 
the  same  until  its  use  becomes  necessar3^ 

13.  To  establish  and  maintain  at  such  University  an 
educational  system  which  will,  if  followed,  fit  the  graduate 
for  some  useful  pursuit,  and  to  this  end  to  cause  the  pupils, 
as  early  as  may  be,  to  declare  the  particular  calling,  which 
in  life  they  may  desire  to  pursue  ;  but  such  declaration  shall 
not  be  binding  if,  in  the  judgment  of  the  President  of  the 
University,  the  student  is  not  by  nature  fitted  for  the  pursuit 
declared. 

14.  To  prohil)it  sectarian  instruction,  but  to  have  taught 
in  the  University  the  immortality  of  the  soul,  the  existence 
of  an  all-wise  and  benevolent  Creator,  and  that  obedience 
to  His  laws  is  the  highest  dut}^  of  man. 

15.  To  have  taught  in  the  I"^niversity  the  right  and  ad- 
vantages of  association  and  co-operation. 


58  DKCKKH,   TIIK    FOUNDING    GRANT. 

\(\  To  afford  equal  facilities  and  give  equal  advantages 
in  the  University  to  both  the  sexes. 

17.  To  maintain  on  the  Palo  Alto  Estate  a  farm  for 
instruction   in  Agriculture   in   all   its  l)ranches. 

18.  To  do  and  perform  all  things  hereinafter  provided 
for,  and  all  things  necessary  to  the  proper  exercise  and 
discharge  of  their  trust. 

Fifth. 

THE    POWERS   AND    DUTIES    OF   TFIE    PRESIDENT 
OF  THE   UNIVERSITY. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Trustees  to  give  to  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  University  the  following  powers : 

1.  To  prescribe  the  duties  of  the  professors  and  teachers. 

2.  To  remove  professors  and  teachers  at  will. 

3.  To  prescribe  and  enforce  the  course  of  study  and 
the   mode   and   manner  of  teaching. 

4.  Such  other  powers  as  will  enable  him  to  control  the 
educational  part  of  the  University  to  such  an  extent  that  he 
may  justly  be  held  responsible  for  the  course  of  study  therein 
and  for  the  good  conduct  and  capacity  of  the  professors 
and  teachers. 

Sixth. 

THE    FACULTY. 
The    Trustees    shall    con.stitute    the    President    and    pro- 
fessors   the    faculty    of    the    University,    and    prescribe    their 
powers  and  duties  as  such. 

Seventh. 

THE    MANNER,    AND    TO    Wllo.M.    THE    TRUSTEES 
SHALL   REPORT. 

The  P>oard  of  Trustees  shall  annually  report  all  their 
proceedings  to  the  person  who  for  the  time  being  shall  fill 
the  office  of  Governor  of  the  State  of  California,  and  shall 
accompany  such  report  with  a  full  account  of  their  financial 
operations  for  the  preceding  year,  and  with  a  statement  of 
the  financial  affairs  of  the  Institution. 


DECEEE,   THE    FOUNDING    GRANT.  59 

Eighth. 

THE  MODE  AND  MAXXER,  AND  BY  WHOM,  THE 
SUCCESSORS  TO  THE  TRUSTEES  NAMED  IN 
THE  GRANT  ARE  TO  BE  APPOINTED. 

Any  Trustee  named  in  this  Grant,  or  the  successor  to 
any  such  Trustee,  may  for  good  cause  be  removed  by  a 
proper  court  of  equity  jurisdiction,  after  notice  to  him,  and 
upon  the  application  of  the  grantors  herein,  or  either  of 
them,  or  upon  the  application  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

Any  Trustee  named  in  this  Grant  or  the  successor  of 
any  svich  Trustee,  may,  in  writing,  addressed  and  delivered 
to  the  Board  of  Trustees,  resign  his  office  as  Trustee,  and 
every  vacanc}^  in  the  Trustees  which  shall  occur  during  the 
lives  of  the  grantors,  or  during  the  life  of  either  of  them, 
either  from  the  failure  of  any  Trustee  named  in  this  Grant 
to  accept  the  trust,  or  from  death,  resignation  or  otherwise, 
shall  be  filled  by  the  grantors,  or  either  of  them,  as  the  case 
may  be,  and  every  vacancy  occurring  thereafter  shall  be  filled 
by  the  surviving  or  remaining  Trustees  by  ballot. 

Ninth. 

THE  PLACE  WHERE.  AND  THE  TIME  WHEN,  THE 
BUILDINGS  XECESSARY  AND  PROPER  FOR 
THE  INSTITUTION  SHALL  BE  ERECTED,  THE 
CHARACTER  AND  EXTENT  THEREOF. 

The  Trustees  shall : 

1.  Within  two  years  from  the  date  hereof,  select  and  lay 
off  on  the  Palo  Alto  Farm  a  site,  and  adopt  a  general  plan 
for  the  construction  of  the  University  buildings.  Such  build- 
ings shall  be  plain  and  substantial  in  character  and  extensive 
enough  to  provide  accommodations  for  the  University  and 
the  Colleges,  Schools,  Seminaries,  Mechanical  Institutes, 
Museums,  Laboratories.  Conservatories  and  Galleries  of  Art, 
])art  thereof.  They  shall  l)c  built  as  needed,  and  no  faster, 
and  in  a  manner  which  shall  allow  for  additions  and  expan- 
sions from   lime  to  time,  as  the  necessities  of  the  University 


60  DECREE,  THE    FOUNDING    GEANT. 

may  demand,  the  Trustees  bearing  in  mind  that  extensive 
and  expensive  buildings  do  not  make  a  University;  that  it 
depends  for  its  success  rather  upon  the  character  and  attain- 
ments of  its  Faculty.  In  this  behalf,  and  to  the  end  that  the 
endowment  may  not  be  wasted,  or  impaired,  by  the  premature 
construction  of  expensive  buildings,  the  Trustees  shall  be 
the  exclusive  judges,  free  from  all  interference  from  any 
source  whatever,  of  the  time  when  buildings  are  needed,  and 
of  the  time  and  manner  of  their  construction  and  of  the  time 
and  manner  of  making  additions  thereto. 

2.  Lay  off  on  the  PALO  ALTO  FARM  one  or  more 
sites  for  buildings  for  the  officers  and  employes  of  the  Insti- 
tution, and  erect  and  maintain  thereon  such  buildings  as  may 
be  necessary. 

3.  Lay  off  on  the  Palo  Alto  Farm  one  or  more  sites 
for  dwelling-houses  for  parents  or  guardians  and  their  families, 
and  for  such  other  persons  as  the  Board  may  direct,  and 
erect  thereon  buildings  and  lease  the  same,  or  lease  the  land 
and  permit  the  lessees  to  erect  such  buildings,  on  such  terms 
and  conditions  as  the   Board  ma_v  direct. 

4.  Lay  ofif  on  said  Palo  Alto  Farm  a  lot  of  about  ten 
acres,  and  suitably  improve  and  maintain  the  same  forever 
as  a  place  of  burial  and  of  last  rest  on  earth  for  the  bodies 
of  the  grantors  and  of  their  son  LELAND  STANFORD 
JUNIOR,  and  as  the  Board  may  direct,  for  the  bodies  of 
such  other  persons  who  may  have  been  connected  with  the 
Universit}-. 

5.  Lay  off  on  the  Palo  Alto  Farm  a  site  for,  and  erect 
thereon   a   church. 

Tenth. 

TME  SCHOLARSHIPS  AND  OTHER  MATTERS  CON- 
NECTED THEREW^ITH. 

The  Trustees  shall  have  power,  and  it  shall  be  their 
duty  : 

I.  To  establish  and  maintain  in  connection  with  the 
University  such  a  number  of  free  Scholarships  as  the  endow- 


DECEEE,   THE    FOUNDING    GRANT.  61 

ment  ot  the  Institution,  considernig  all  its  objects,  will  justify. 
Such  scholarships  must  be  given  either  to  those  who,  by  good 
conduct  and  study,  have  earned  the  right  thereto,  or  to  tho 
deserving  children  of  those  who,  dying  without  means  in  the 
service  of  the  State,  or  in  the  cause  of  humanity,  have  a 
special  claim  upon  the  good-will  of  mankind. 

2.  To  fix  the  terms  and  conditions  upon  which  the 
students  generally  may  be  admitted  to  all  or  any  of  the  pri\- 
ileges  of  the  University. 

3.  To  fix  the  terms  and  conditions  upon  which  the  stu- 
dents of  the  public  and  private  schools  and  other  deserving 
persons  may  attend  the  lectures  of  the  Universit}',  or  engage 
in  original  research  thereat,  and  the  terms  and  conditions 
upon  which  the  agricultural  farms,  laboratories,  museums, 
art  galleries,  mechanical  institutes,  conservatories  and  other 
institutions,  part  of  the  University  shall  be  open  to  deserving 
persons,  without  their  becoming  students  thereof. 

4.  To  establish  and  have  given  at  the  University,  by 
its  ablest  professors,  courses  of  lectures  upon  the  science 
of  government,  and  upon  Law,  Medicine,  Mechanics,  and  the 
other  Arts,  and  Sciences,  which  shall  be  free  to  the  post- 
graduates of  the  Colleges  of  the  University  hereby  founded, 
and  to  the  post-graduates  of  all  other  colleges  and  universi- 
ties, and  to  all  deserving  persons,  to  the  full  capacity  of  the 
lecture-rooms,  under  such  rules  and  regulations  as  the  Trus- 
tees may  adopt. 

Eleventh. 

ELECTION  OF  THE  GRANTORS  TO  CONTROL  THE 
PROPERTY  AND  THE  EXECUTION  OF  THE 
TRUST  DURING  THEIR  LIVES,  OR  TFIE  LIFE 
OF  EITHER. 

The  grantors,  and  each  of  them,  do  hereby,  in  accord- 
ance with  the  provisions  of  the  aforesaid  Act  of  the  Legis- 
lature, elect: 

I.  In  relation  to  the  property  hereby  conveyed,  and  in 
relation  to  such  other  property  as  may  hereafter  be  conveved 


62  DKcK'Ki;.   rill-:  fouxdixg  grant. 

or  devised  by  them  or  either  of  them  to  said  Trustees  for 
the  purpose  of  this  trust,  aud  in  relation  to  the  erection, 
maintenance  and  management  of  the  Institution  hereby 
founded,  to  perform  durin^-  their  lives  all  the  duties  and 
exercise  all  the  powers  and  pri\ile|Lies,  Avhich.  b}'  the  terms 
oi  this  grant,  arc  enjomed  ujjou  and  \ested  in  the  Trustees 
tlierein  luuned. 

2.  Thai  the  sur\ivor  of  either  of  said  j^i^rantors  shall, 
after  the  death  of  the  other,  and  durin,2^  the  life  of  the 
sin'vi\-or.  in  relation  to  all  of  said  ])r()])erty.  and  in  relation 
to  the  erection,  maintenance  and  manag"enient  of  the  insti- 
tution hereby  founded,  perform  all  the  duties,  and  exercise 
all  the  powers  and  pri\  ileges  which,  by  the  terms  of  this 
grant  are  enjoined  ui)on  and  vested  in  the  Trustees  therein 
named. 

3.  That  u])on  the  death  of  both  grantors  then  all  such 
duties  shall  devolve  upon  and  all  such  powers  and  privileges 
shall  be  exercised  by  the  Trustees  named  in  this  grant, 
and  !)}•  their  successors  forever. 

Twelfth. 

RESERVATION  0!<  'I'llE  RIGHT  'i'O  ALTER,  AMEND 
OR  MODIFY  TlJb:  TERMS  AND  CONDITIONS  OF 
THIS  GRANT,  AND  THE  TRUST  THEREIN 
CREATED,    IN    CERTAIN    RESPECTS. 

The  grantors  hereby  reser\e  to  themsch"es  dtu'ing  their 
lives,  and  hereby  reserve  and  grant  to  the  one  who  shall 
sur\i\e  the  other,  during  his  or  her  life,  the  right  to  alter, 
amend  or  modify  the  terms  and  conditions  of  this  grant,  and 
tlie  trusts  therein  created,  in  res])ect  lo  the  nature,  object 
and  piu'poses  of  the  mslitntion  foun(le(l,  the  powers  and 
duties  of  the  Trustees,  the  manner  in  which,  and  to  whom. 
they  shall  account,  the  mode  and  manner,  and  l)y  whom, 
their  successors  shall  be  ap])ointed,  the  rules  and  regula- 
tions for  the  nianagcment  of  the  property  conveyed,  the  time 
when,  and  the  character  and  extent  of.  the  buildings  which 
shall    be    erected,    the    right    to    provide    for    trades   and    pro- 


DECREE,  THE  FOUXDIXG  GRANT.  63 

fessions    which    shall    be    taught    in    the    institution,    and    the 
terms  upon  which  scholarsliips  shall  be   founded. 

Thirteenth. 

RESERVATION    OF    OTHER    RIGHTS. 

The  grantors  hereby  reser^•e  to  themselves  during  their 
lives,  and  hereby  reserve  and  grant  to  the  one  who  shall 
survive  the  other,  during  his  or  her  life. 

1.  The  right  to  absolute  dominion  over  the  personal 
property  which  they,  or  either  of  them,  may  hereafter  give 
to  said  Trustees,  or  their  successors,  and  over  the  rents, 
issues  and  profits  thereof. 

2.  The  right  to  absolute  dominion  over  the  rents,  issues 
and  profits  of  the  real  property  hereby  granted. 

3.  The  right  to  improve,  manage  and  control  the  trust 
property,  as  if  this  grant  had  not  been  made ;  but  this  reser- 
vation does  not  include  the  right  or  power  to  sell  or  encum- 
ber any  of  the  real  property  granted. 

All  these  rights,  and  all  other  rights  reserved  by,  and 
all  powers  and  privileges  given,  or  duties  imposed  upon,  the 
grantors,  or  either  of  them,  by  the  terms  of  this  grant,  shall 
be  exercised,  enjoyed  and  performed  by  said  grantors  or 
either  of  them,  as  the  case  may  be.  without  let  or  hindrance, 
and  free  from  all  interference  from  any  source  whatever,  and 
from  all  duty  to  report  their  action,  and  from  all  liability 
to  account  in  any  manner  therefor,  and  from  all  liability  for 
waste,  loss,  misappropriation,  or  for  any  act  or  deed  whatever, 
by   them    or   either   of   them    done    or   permitted. 

Fourteenth. 

_  THE  CUSTODY  OF  THE  PERSONS  OF  ^HXORS. 

And  further,  in  pursuance  of  said  desire,  the  grantors 
hereby  provide  that  the  Trustees  named  in  this  grant,  and 
their  successors,  may.  in  the  name  of  the  Institution  become 
the  custodian  of  the  persons  of  minors,  taking  such  custody 
in  the  manner,  and  for  the  time,  and  in  accordance  with  the 


64  DKCHKi;,    A-Mi:.\l>.MEXTS     OV    .irXK     1,    1897. 

provisions  of  Sections  264  to  276.  inclusive,  of  tlic  Civil  Code 
of  the  State  of  California. 

Fifteenth. 

LIMITATIONS   UPON    THE   POWERS   OF   THE 
TRUSTEES. 

1.  Neither  the  Trustees  herein  named,  nor  their  suc- 
cessors, shall  have  power  to  sell  or  convey  the  real  property 
hereinbefore  described  and  granted. 

2.  The  Trustees  herein  named,  and  their  successors, 
shall  serve  without  compensation. 

Sixteenth. 
^IISCELLANEOUS. 
The  grantors  hereby  declare : 

1.  That  all  the  property  hereby  conveyed  was  acquired 
by  them  during  co\erture,  and  was,  until  this  grant  was  exe- 
cuted, their  community  property,  and  for  that  reason,  and 
because  of  their  mutual  desire  to  be  associated  in  this  under- 
taking, they  in  accordance  w^ith  the  provisions  of  the  afore- 
said  Act  of  the   Legislature   ha\e  joined   in   this   con\eyance. 

2.  This  grant,  and  all  grants  and  devises  hereafter  made 
by  the  grantors  or  either  of  them  for  endowing  and  main- 
taining the  Institution  hereby  founded,  shall  be  liberally 
construed,  and  always  with  a  view  to  effect  the  objects  and 
promote  the  purposes  of  the  grantors,  as  herein  expressed. 

II. 

That  on  the  1st  day  of  June,  1897,  the  foregoing  trusts, 
set  forth  in  and  created  by  said  Founding  Grant,  were  duly 
and  regularly  amended  by  the  aforesaid  instrument  in  the 
form  of  an  address,  dated,  executed  and  delivered  on  the  1st 
day  of  June,  1897,  as  follows,  to-wit: 

I  further  <Jircct  that  no  building  be  placed  in  the  area 
set  apart   for  the  "Outer   Quadrangle,"  except  that   it  be  of 


DECREE,    AMENDMENTS     OF    JUNE     1,    1S97.  65 

Stone  and  in  general  harmony  with  the  present  Quadrangle 
and  in  conformity  with  its  plan. 

I  embrace  this  opportunity  to  express  to  you  my  wish 
in  regard  to  certain  other  matters  of  importance  connected 
\vith  the  future  administration  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
University. 

It  is  desirable  so  far  as  may  be  that  the  Faculty  and  stu- 
dents should  reside  on  the  University  grounds.  To  that  end 
the  present  provisions  for  leasing  lots  should  be  continued, 
subject  to  such  changes  as  future  contingencies  may  make 
^necessary. 

I  direct  that  professors  or  University  officers  desiring 
to  build  on  the  grounds  shall  be  permitted  to  do  so  on  suita- 
ble terms  of  lease,  on  condition  that  the  houses  so  erected 
shall  be  attractive  in  exterior  and  that  they  shall  not  cost  less 
than  $3,000. 

I  also  direct  that  student  associations  shall  be  allowed 
to  build  houses  of  attractive  exterior,  the  minimum  cost 
to  be  fixed  at  the  present  at  $5,000. 

I  direct  that  the  privilege  of  leasing  grounds  for  the 
purpose  of  building  on  the  University  campus  on  the  part 
of  outside  persons  shall  be  limited  to  special  cases,  and  no 
house  to  be  built  in  the  future  by  a  person  not  connected 
with  the  University  shall  cost  less  than  $6,000;  and  none 
shall  l)e   built  or  used  for  boarding-house   purposes. 

I  reserve  for  myself  only  the  right  to  change  this  plan. 

I  further  direct  that  no  ground  shall  ever  be  leased  for 
a  boarding-house,  school  or  residence  of  any  sort  which  shall 
be  held  for  the  benefit  of  any  religious  sect  or  denomination. 

I  further  direct  that  no  residences  be  allowed  to  encroach 
on  the  grounds  needed  for  University  purposes,  and  that 
none  be  built  on  the  north  of  Alvarado  Row,  or  between  the 
Row  and  the  Quadrangle,  or  between  Roble  Hall,  Dr.  Jor- 
dan's residence  or  the   Museum. 

I  further  desire  tliat  the  Sigma  Nu  fraternity-house  and 
if  possible  the  residence  of  the  bachelor  professors  be 
removed,  as  soon  as  convenient  to  said  parties,  to  some  point 
further   from   the   athletic   grounds   of  the   University. 


oti  i)i:(i;i:i;.  amfad.mkx  rs   of   :\[av   :u.  i899. 

Ill  ilic  i;ranl  founding"  the  Lclancl  Stanford  Junior  Uni- 
versity. November  14.  1883.  it  is  made  the  duty  of  the 
'rruslees  to  gi\  e  the  President  of  the  University  the  following 
powers  : 

1.  To  prescribe  the  duties  of  the  professors  and  teachers. 

2.  To  remove  professors  and  teachers  at  will. 

vX  To  prescribe  and  enforce  the  course  of  study  and  the 
mode  and  manner  of  teaching. 

4.  Such  other  powers  as  will  enable  him  to  control  the 
educational  part  of  the  University  to  such  an  extent  that  he 
may  justly  be  held  responsible  for  the  good  conduct  and 
capacity  of  the  professors  and  teachers. 

The  history  of  the  University  for  the  past  six  years  has 
fully  vindicated  the  wisdom  of  this  clause  in  the  grant.  It 
is  my  wish  that  this  clause  shall  be  in  the  future  as  in  the 
past   respected   both   in   word   and    in   -.pirit. 

I  therefore  explicitly  direct  that  the  selection  and 
removal  of  the  professors  and  teachers,  and  all  questions 
relating  thereto,  shall  be  determined  by  the  President  and 
bv  him   alone. 

\U. 

That  on  the  31st  day  of  May.  1899,  the  foregoing  trusts 
set  forth  in  and  created  by  said  Founding  Grant,  and  the 
foregoing  amendments  thereof  by  the  aforesaid  instrument  in 
the  form  of  an  address,  dated,  executed  and  delivered  on  the 
1st  day  of  June,  1897,  as  aforesaid,  were  further  duly  and  regu- 
larly amended  by  the  aforesaid  deed  dated,  made,  signed,  ac- 
knowledged and  delivered  by  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  on 
the  31st  d:'y  of  May,  1899,  as  follows,  to-wit: 

Under  and  by  \irtuc  of  the  power  and  autliority  reserved 
to  mc-  by  the  said  Act  of  the  Legislature  apjiroved  March  9th. 
188.3.  and  l)y  the  grant  executed  by  my  liusband  and  myself 
])caring  date  tlie  11th  day  of  Xovember.  A.  1).  188.3.  T  hereby 
make,  fleclare  and  designate  the  following  additional  rules 
and  regulations  for  the  management  of  said  ]:)ropcrty.  and 
respecting  the  g<;vcrnnient  and  management  of  said 
UniversitN' : 


DECREE,  AMEXD^rENTS    OF    ^FAY    31,  1899.  67 

I  provide  that  the  President  and  Vice-President  of  the 
iJoard  of  Trustees  shall  be  chosen  annually  by  a  majority 
%ote  of  said  JJoard,  their  terms  of  office  to  begin  with  the 
first  day  of  August  in  each  school  year.  This  is  the  rule 
in  almost  all  similar  bodies,  where  there  is  no  €x-officio  Presi- 
dent ;  and  1  now  name  Mr.  S.  F.  Leib  as  President,  and 
j\Ir.  Russell  J.  Wilson  as  Vice-President  for  the  coming 
\ear,  commencing  from  this  date. 

I  also  desire  to  provide  that  after  my  death  the  President 
and  Vice-President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  shall  exercise 
the  usual  functions  of  such  officers,  together  with  such 
duties  as  such,  as  the  Board  of  Trustees  may,  from  time  to 
time,   assign   to   them. 

No  vacancy  occurring  from  any  cause  in  the  Board  of 
Trustees  shall  be  filled  until  the  number  of  Trustees  shall 
be  reduced  to  fifteen.  Any  vacancy  occurring  in  the  Board 
after  the  number  of  Trustees  shall  be  reduced  to  fifteen  shall 
be  filled  after  my  death,  but  not  before,  by  the  Trustees, 
and  all  vacancies  that  may  occur  thereafter  shall  be  filled  by 
the  remaining  Trustees  by  ballot,  either  at  the  annual  meet- 
ing, or  at  a  special  meeting,  of  which  due  notice  shall  be 
given,  stating  the  vacancy  to  be  filled;  and  from  and  after 
the  time  when  the  number  of  the  Trustees  shall  be  reduced 
to  fifteen,  that  number  of  Trustees  shall  constitute  the  Board 
of  Trustees  of  said  University. 

The  term  of  office  of  each  Trustee  hereafter  appointed 
or  elected  shall  be  ten  years. 

Nine  Trustees  shall  constitute  a  quorum  of  the  Board. 
The  votes  of  eight  Trustees  shall  be  required  for  the  election 
of  a  Trustee. 

There  shall  be  elected  at  the  annual  meetings  a  Presi- 
dent, Vice-President,  and  an  Executive  and  Finance  Com- 
mittee, composed  of  five  Trustees.  Their  respective  terms 
of  office  shall  be  one  year,  commencing  upon  the  first  day  of 
August  after  their  election  or  appointment,  and  continuing 
imtil    their    respective    successors    shall    be    elected. 

The  Executive  and  Finance  Committee  shall  ha\e  the 
management    and    control,    subject    to    the    approval    of    the 


68  DECKKi:.    AMKND.MKNTS    OF     :MAV     ;n.    1S99. 

Board,  of  the  propert}^  the  finances,  and  the  general  business 
of  the  University.  They  shall  keep  a  record  of  their  pro- 
ceedings, and  the  same  shall  always  be  open  to  the  inspec- 
tion of  the  Board  and  its  members.  The  President,  Vice- 
President,  the  Executive  and  Finance  Committee,  the  Treas- 
urer and  Business  Manager,  and  the  votes  of  eight  Trustees 
shall  be  necessary  for  affirmative  action  in  the  execution  of 
the  trusts  herein  mentioned,  but  for  the  purposes  of  investing 
and  re-investing  the  proceeds  of  the  trust  property  in  the 
bonds  of  the  United  States,  or  of  this  State,  or  in  other 
bonded  securities,  it  shall  take  the  affirmative  votes  of  nine 
Trustees. 

After  my  death  the  Board  may,  from  time  to  time,  at  its 
pleasure,  adopt  by-laws  not  inconsistent  with  law,  or  the 
rules,  regulations  or  orders  made  by  the  founders  of  the 
University,  or  either  of  them. 

No  private  or  public  house  shall  be  erected  upon  the 
grounds  of  the  University  as  a  boarding  or  lodging-house  for 
students  of  the  University,  or  others,  except  by  the  Trustees, 
and  under  their  entire  control.  No  house  for  private  use  shall 
be  erected  upon  the  grounds  of  the  University  which  is  of  a 
value  less  than  four  thousand  dollars. 

No  kindergarten  or  elementary  school  shall  be  established 
or  maintained  on  the  grounds,  or  in  any  of  the  buildings  or 
rooms  of  the  University  ^vhich  shall  be  supported  in  whole 
or  in  part  out  of  the  funds  of  the  University. 

No  summer  school  shall  be  established  or  maintained  at 
the  University,  or  have  the  use  of  the  University  name,  nor 
shall  any  member  of  the  Faculty  engage,  or  be  employed  as 
a  teacher  in  such  school,  upon  the  grounds  of  the  University. 

The  Board  shall  designate  one  day  in  each  week  when 
the  students  at  the  University  may  visit  the  Museum  free 
of  charge.  All  other  ]:)crsons  must  pay  an  admission  fee  of  a 
quarter  of  a  dollar  for  each  admission,  except  the  President 
and  m^bers  of  the  Facult\'  and  tlicir  families,  and  the 
Trustees  and  their  families. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  may,  in  its  discretion,  receive 
and   accept    all    such    property   as   any   person   may   desire   to 


DECREE,   AMENDMENTS    OF    MAY,    31,    1899.  69 

give  to  said  Board  or  said  University,  for  the  benefit  and 
use  of  the  University,  by  grant,  devise,  or  any  other  mode 
or  means  by  which  the  title  of  property  is  transferred  by 
or  between  private  persons ;  and  if  such  property  be  offered 
to  be  given,  in  the  mode  or  manner  aforesaid,  to  said  Board 
in  trust  for  the  benefit  of  said  University,  said  Board  may 
accept  and  receive  the  same,  if  in  the  opinion  of  the  Board 
the  particular  purpose  for  which  it  is  offered  to  be  given 
be  not  inconsistent  witli  the  purposes  for  which  said  Uni- 
versity was  founded,  and  if,  also,  the  trusts  declared  by  said 
donor  may  be  executed  by  said. Board  in  the  same  manner 
that  the  trusts  declared  in  the  grant  by  which  said  University 
was  founded  may  be  executed. 

It  is  desirable  that  the  members  of  the  Faculty  and  the 
students  should  generally  reside  upon  the  grounds  of  the 
Universit}^;  the  Trustees  are,  therefore,  empowered  to  lease 
to  the  members  and  officers  of  the  Faculty  and  associations 
of  students,  parcels  of  said  grounds  suitable  for  the  erection 
of  dwelling  houses,  upon  such  terms,  and  for  such  rent  as 
the  Trustees  may  deem  for  the  best  interests  of  the  Uni- 
versity ;  but  each  of  the  leases  shall  contain  conditions  to  the 
eft'ect  that  a  dwelling  house  shall  be  erected  upon  the  leased 
premises,  that  its  exterior  shall  be  attractive  in  appearance, 
and  cost  not  less  than  four  thousand  dollars. 

None  of  the  residences  shall  be  permitted  to  encroach 
on  the  grounds  needed  for  the  purposes  or  uses  of  the  Uni- 
versity, or  be  built  on  the  north  of  Alvarado  Row,  or  between 
that  Row  and  the  Quadrangle,  or  between  Roble  Hall,  Dr. 
Jordan's   residence,  or  the   Museum. 

Societies  or  associations  of  students  shall  be  permitted 
to  build  houses  for  the  use  of  the  members  of  the  societies 
or  associations  respectively,  but  the  respective  houses  must 
l)e  of  an  attracti\c  exterior,  and  the  minimum  cost  to  be 
fixed  at  six  thousand  dollars,  and  must  not  be  re-leased  to 
anyone  for  boarding-houses. 

The  selection,  appointment  and  removal  of  professors  and 
teachers,  and  all  ([ucstions  relating  thereto,  shall  ])c  made 
and  determined  i»v  the  President  of  the  Universitv. 


7(1  DKCHHK,  AS:^r.Ml'TI()N    OF    COKPOlvWrK    I'OWKHS. 

At  or  about  the  bci;inniii_i;-  of  each  I'niversity  year,  a 
(lefinite  sum  shall  be  desis^nated  as  a  fund  lor  the  ])a}ineut 
of  salaries;  and  another  definite  sum  shall  be  desis^nated  for 
the  purchase  of  books  and  supplies  for  the  University. 

The  charge  of  registration  fees  for  students  and  post- 
graduating  students  has  j^rovcn  by  experience  to  be  advan- 
tageous, and  I  direct  that  this  shall  ever  be  continued  in  the 
future. 

There  is  another  subject  upon  which  I  feel  deeply,  and 
I  speak  of  it  at  present,  because  this  may  be  my  last  oppor- 
tunity of  meeting  you  face  to  face.  Whereas  the  University 
was  founded  in  memory  of  our  dear  son  Leland.  and  bears 
his  name,  I  direct,  under  the  power  given  me  in  the  original 
grant,  that  the  number  of  women  attending  the  University 
as  students  shall  at  no  time  ever  exceed  five  hundred. 

The  term  "Trustees"  wherever  employed  herein,  may 
be  so  construed  as  to  include  the  successors  of  said  Trustees, 
and  also  the  I'oard  of  Trustees. 

IV. 

That  the  said  instrument  dated  the  1st  day  of  November, 
1901.  and  executed  by  all  of  the  then  Trustees  of  the  Leland 
Stanford  Junior  University,  and  consented  to  and  approved 
by  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  by  an  instrument  endorsed 
thereon  on  the  28th  day  of  March,  1592,  did  duly  and  regu- 
larly set  forth  and  create  further  and  add'tional  powers  in  said 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University 
and  further  and  additional  provisions,  Ly-laws  and  rules  affect- 
ing the  organization  of  said  Board  of  Trustees  and  the  manner 
of  exercising  the  powers  and  performing  the  duties  of  said 
Trustees,  and  provisions  assuming  corporate  powers  by  said 
Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University;  and  that 
said  provisions,  by-law^s  and  rules  are  valid  amendments  of  the 
foregoing  trusts  set  forth  in  and  created  by  said  Founding 
Grant  and  the  amendments  thereof  hereinbefore  set  forth,  and 
are  as  follows,  to-wit: 

WHEREAS,  Section  10  of  .Article  9  of  the  Constitution 
of   the    State    of   California   provides   that   the    I^egislature   of 


DECBEE,  ASSUMPTTOX   OF    COEPORATE    POWEKS.  71 

the  State  of  California  may.  by  a  special  Act,  grant  to  the 
Trustees  of  the  Lelancl  Stanford  Junior  University  corporate 
powers  and  privileges ; 

AXD  AVHERAS.  under  such  power  and  authorit}^  the 
Legislature  did,  by  Act  approved  February  14,  1901,  entitled 
"An  act  to  grant  to  the  trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford 
Junior  University  corporate  powers  and  privileges,"  found 
on  page  4  of  the  Statutes  of  1901.  confer  the  right  on  such 
Trustees  to  exercise  certain  corporate  powers  therein 
specified ; 

NOW,  THEREFORE,  we,  the  undersigned,  being  all 
the  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,  do 
hereby,  in  pursuance  of  the  said  Act,  organize  ourselves  into 
a  Board  of  Trustees  to  be  and  to  be  known  as  "The  Board 
of  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University." 

The  ofificers  of  such  Board  shall  consist  of  a  president, 
a  vice-president,  a  secretary  and  a  treasurer,  and  the  present 
ofificers  of  the  present  organization  of  said  University,  known 
as  "The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
LTniversity,"  are  hereby  elected  to  the  respective  offices  which 
they  are  now  filling,  until  new  officers  shall  be  elected  in 
their  stead :  that  is  to  say :  S.  F.  Leib  is  elected  as  the  presi- 
dent of  said  Board  of  Trustees :  Russell  J.  AA'ilson  is  elected 
as  the  vice-president  thereof;  H.  C.  Xash  is  elected  as  the 
secretary  thereof;  and  Charles  G.  Lathrop  is  elected  as  the 
treasurer  of  the  said  Uni\ersity  and  of  the  Trustees  thereof 
and  of  the  said  Board  of  Trustees. 

The  officers  shall  be  elected  by  the  Board  of  Trustees 
on  the  first  day  of  Augrist  of  each  year,  and  shall  hold 
office  for  one  year  or  until  their  successors  are  chosen 
and  c|ualify. 

A  majority  of  the  Trustees  shall  constitute  a  quorum 
to  do  business  at  any  meeting  of  the  Board,  but  a  majority 
of  all  of  the  Trustees  of  the  University  shall  vote  in  favor 
1)1  an}'  motion  or  resohition  in  order  to  carry  the  same. 

The  said  Board  of  Trustees  may  transact  all  busines?<, 
perform  ail  acts  and  exercise  all  powers  that  could  otherwise 


72  DECKEK.  A^rEXD^fENTS    OF    OCTOBER    3,  ]9uJ. 

be  legall}'  Irausaclcd,  performed  or  exercised  by  such  Trus- 
tees, and  the  iJoard  of  Trustees  shall  have  the  power  to 
authorize  its  officers  to  transact  such  business,  as  its  act 
and  on  its  behalf,  as  such  Board  may  designate. 

Such  Board  shall  also  have  the  power  to  authorize 
its  officers  to  transact  such  business  as  it  may  designate  on 
behalf  of  and  as  ilic-  act  of  the  Trustees  of  such  University. 

The  said  Board  of  Trustees  may  adopt  such  By-Laws  as 
it  may  consider  necessary  and  proper. 

Either  the  said  Board  of  Trustees  or  the  president  of 
such  Board  may  accept  any  property  or  the  possession 
thereof  gi\cn  or  conveyed,  or  to  be  given  or  conveyed  to 
said  Trustees  ])y  any  grant  or  conveyance  for  the  1)cnefit 
of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,  and  may  accept 
such  grant  or  con\'eyance  in  accordance  with  the  provisions 
thereof. 

Meetings  o\  sucli  I'oard  can  be  held  at  any  time  u])on  no- 
tice thereof  to  the  Trustees  in  llic  State  of  California  being 
given  by  mail,  telcgraiih  or  telephone  by  the  secretary  or  presi- 
dent in  time  for  tlicni  to  attend  the  same,  and  at  such  meeting 
.any  business  may  l)e  transacted;  and  the  recital  in  general 
terms  by  the  secretary  in  the  minutes  that  such  notice  was 
given  shall  be  sufficient  evidence  of  the  fact,  without  further 
or  detailed   recital   concerning  the  same. 

The  r)Oard  may,  by  resolution  or  By-Law,  provide  for 
regular  meetings  thereof. 

And  the  r.oard  of  'I'rustccs  hereby  organized  shall  be 
deemed  and  shall  in  fact  be  a  continuation  of  said  Board  of 
Trustees  iM-o\-i<k'(l  for  in  said  grant  founding  said  Lhiiversity. 

V. 

That  the  trusts  set  forth  in  and  created  by  said  Founding 
Grant,  and  amendments  thereof  made  prior  to  the  3rd  day  of 
October,  1902,  were  upon  said  3rd  day  of  October,  1902,  further 
duly  and  regularly  amended  by  said  instrument  in  the  form  of 
an  address  dated  and  executed,  acknowledged  and  delivered  by 
said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford,  on  that  day,  as  follows,  to-wit : 


DECREE,  AMENDMENTS  OF  OCTOBER  3,  1902.  73 

The  Trustees  being  organized  as  a  Board,  with  the  assent 
oi  the  Surviving  Founder,  and  under  and  in  accordance  with 
the  State  Constitution  and  special  act  of  the  Legislature, 
all  directions  heretofore  made  by  me  as  to  the  appointment, 
powers,  and  duties  of  its  officers  and  of  an  executive  and 
finance  committee  are  withdrawn,  and  in  lieu  thereof  the 
Board  is  directed  to  adopt  by-lav/s  providing  for  its  officers 
and  necessary  committees  and  specifying  their  powers  and 
duties. 

The  directions  heretofore  made  requiring  the  Board  of 
Trustees  to  maintain  the  stables  upon  the  Palo  Alto  Farm 
and  to  maintain  the  vineyard  at  Vina,  are  withdrawn.  i\s 
long  as  the  vineyard  at  Vina  produces  a  reasonable  income, 
I    recommend   i.ts    maintenance. 

I  have  erected  the  Church,  Assembly  Hall  and  Chemical 
Laboratory  referred  to  in  my  former  directions.  I  therefore 
withdraw  all  directions  concerning  their  location  or  erection. 

No  rule  or  direction  heretofore  made  shall  prevent  the 
application  of  the  endowment  funds  of  the  University  towards 
the  improvement  of  any  real  estate  now  or  hereafter  held  in 
trust  for  the  University. 

All  property,  real  and  personal,  held  in  trust  for  the 
maintenance  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,  except 
the  Palo  Alto  Farm  and  my  San  Francisco  Residence,  may 
be  sold  and  conveyed  and  the  proceeds  thereof  invested  for 
the  benefit  of  the  University. 

The  concurrence  of  a  majority  (eight)  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  shall  be  necessary  and  sufficient  for  the  sale  of 
property,  for  the  investment  of  funds,  or  for  the  transaction 
of  any  other  business,  irrespective  of  whether  or  not  they, 
or  any  of  them,  shall  be  officers  of  said  board  or  members 
of  any  committee  thereof. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
University,  as  such,  or  in  the  name  of  the  institution,  or  by 
other  intelligible  designation  of  the  trustees  or  of  the  insti- 
ttition  may  receive  properi}-.  real  or  personal,  and  wherever 
situated,  by  gift,  grant,  devise,  or  bequest,  for  the  benefit  of 
the    institution,    or    of    any    department    thereof,    and    such 


74  DKCRKi:.  A:MRND:\IK\TS    of    OCTOBKK    :5.  1902. 

property,  unless  otherwise  provided,  shall  be  held  by  the 
'JVnstees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  upon 
the  trusts  provided  for  in  the  g"rant  founding'  the  University, 
and  amendments  thereof,  and  grants,  bequests,  and  devises 
supplmentary  thereto,  within  the  meaning  of  Article  IX, 
Section    10,   of   the    Constitution   of   the    State   of   California. 

Any  directions  heretofore  made  by  me  inconsistent  with 
any  of  the  provisions  of  Subdivisions  9,  10  and  11  of  Article 
1\'  of  the  Founding  Grant  are  withdrawn.  The  Board  of 
Trustees  should  adopt  such  a  plan  for  the  nomination  and 
appointment  of  professors  and  teachers,  and  the  determination 
of  their  salaries,  as  experience  of  this  and  similar  institutions 
may  prove  to  be  desirable.  During  my  administration  the 
President  of  the  University  shall  continue  to  have  the  exclu- 
sive control  o^"er  the  appointment  and  dismissal  of  professors 
and  teachers,  as  he  has  had  heretofore. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  should  always  avail  itself  of  the 
knowledge  and  experience  of  the  President  of  the  University, 
who,  by  reason  of  the  high  and  disinterested  position  which 
he  holds,  will  be  found  to  be  a  safe  counsellor  in  all  matters 
of  University  administration  and  in  all  differences  and  con- 
flicting claims  within  and  between  departments. 

Xo  direction  heretofore  made  by  me  sJiall  prevent  the 
continuance  of  regular  or  special  University  instruction 
in  any  and  all  of  the  University  departments  throughout  the 
summer  months,  provided  the  same  is  authorized  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees  and  under  the  exclusi\-e  control  of  the 
University  authorities. 

In  so  far  as  necessary,  or  the  nature  of  the  case  requires, 
instruction  and  investigation,  together  with  suitable  facilities 
therefor,  may  be  maintained  elsewhere  than  upon  the  Palo 
Alto  I''arm. 

Xo  direction  or  recpiest  heretofore  made  h}-  me  shall 
prohibit  the  maintenance  of  such  elementar}-  and  other 
scho(jls  upon  the  Palo  Alto  l-'arm  as  may  be  found  necessary 
to  ex])erimental  instruction  in  the  department  of  Education  of 
the    L'ni\ersif\'. 


.  DECKEE,  AMENDMENTS    OF    OCTOBEK    3,  1902.  75 

The  Board  of  Trustees  shall  determine  whether  or  not 
any  charge  for  tuition,  or  registration  fee,  shall  be  levied 
in  any  department  of  the  University,  and  the  amount  of  such 
charge  or  fee ;  and  it  may  exempt  residents  of  California 
from  the  payment  of  any  such  charge  or  fee. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  shall  determine  the  conditions 
of  admission  to  the  Museum,  including  the  charge  therefor, 
if  any;  but  I  believe  it  to  be  desirable  that  an  admission 
fee  should  always  be  charged  to  the  public.  By  experience 
I  liave  learned  it  to  be  a  partial  protection  to  the  valuable 
articles  within  its  walls. 

My  Palo  Alto  Residence  may  be  used  as  a  residence 
for  the  President  of  the  University,  or  for  such  other  purposes 
as  the  Board  of  Trustees  may  determine,  after  my  wishes 
are  carried  out  as  to  removing  certain  articles  from  therein, 
to  be  placed  in  the  Museum,  which  are  mentioned  in  my 
last  will  and  testament,  or  in  an  address  heretofore  made 
by  me  to  the  Trustees.  The  articles  not  mentioned  are  to 
remain  in  the  home. 

Boarding  and  lodging-houses  may  be  erected  and  main- 
tained by  private  parties  and  corporations  upon  Palo  Alto 
Farm,  only  under  express  authorization  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees,  and  under  its  supervision  and  control.  The  same 
and  all  other  buildings  upon  the  Palo  Alto  Farm  shall  be 
subject  to  the  rules  of  discipline  of  the  University,  and 
subject  to  the  orders  and  control  of  the   Board  of  Trustees. 

No  additional  interments  shall  be  made  or  permitted  in 
the  cemetery  adjacent  to  the  ]\Iausoleum,  and  the  require- 
ment that  a  cemetery  be  maintained  upon  the  Palo  Alto 
Farm    is    hereby    withdrawn. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  to  make 
general  laws  providing  for  the  government  of  the  University, 
and  to  provide  for  just  and  equitable  rules  of  discipline. 

Inasmuch  as  it  was  the  paramount  purpose  of  the  Found- 
ers of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  to  promote  the 
public  welfare  by  founding,  endowing  and  having  maintained 
a  University  with  the  colleges,  schools,  seminaries  of  learn- 
ing,   mechanical    institutes,    museums,    galleries    of    art.    and 


7G  DECREE,  AlVEENDMENTS    OF    OCTOBER    3,  1902.  . 

all  (-ithcr  ihini;s  necessary  and  appropriate  to  a  University  of 
high  degree,  all  other  directions  or  reservations  in  the 
Founding  Grant  and  all  amendments  or  attempted  amend- 
ments thereof  by  the  Founders,  or  by  the  Survivor  of  them, 
shall  be  deemed  incidental  and  subordinate  to  that  paramount 
purpose,  and  the  invalidity  of  any  direction,  or  attempted 
amendment,  or  of  anything  herein  contained,  shall  not  afifect 
the  validity  of  any  conveyances  heretofore  or  hereafter  made 
to  the  University,  or  to  the  Trustees  thereof,  or  of  the  direc- 
tions herein  or  heretofore  made,  as  far  as  such  directions 
are  otherwise  valid ;  and  if  any  such  directions  or  attempted 
amendments  are  found  not  to  be  legal  or  binding,  they  may, 
notwithstandng,  be  regarded  as  advisory  or  permissive  so 
far  as  the}-  shall  be  capable  of  execution. 

In  my  former  directions  I  have  placed  a  minimum  upon 
the  cost  of  buildings  to  be  erected  upon  the  Palo  Alto  Farm. 
Should  times  and  conditions  so  change  in  the  future  that  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  in  their  best  judgment,  should  find  that 
such  minimum  cost  no  longer  bears  the  same  proportion 
to  the  then  condition  of  affairs  that  it  does  now,  then  they 
are  allowed  from  time  to  time  to  change  the  amount  named 
by  me  as  such  minimum  cost;  but  in  that  case  no  building 
shall  be  built  by  a  lessee  except  under  plans  first  approved 
by  such   Board  of  Trustees. 

Contracts  have  been  made  for  a  new  and  large  gym- 
nasium with  a  view  to  improving  the  physical  condition  of 
the  students  attending  the  University,  and  the  college  author- 
ities should  urge  them  to  fully  avail  themselves  of  its  advan- 
tages and  to  lead  a  hygienic  life.  In  my  judgment  it  is  the 
duty  of  the  University  authorities  to  send  out  into  the  world 
students  with  good  physical  health  as  well  as  with  good 
mental  attainments,  m  order  that  they  ma.y  successfully 
fight   the   I)attle  of  life. 

Pursuant  to  the  policy  of  the  Founders  as  outlined  in 
the  Founding  Grant  of  encouraging  advanced  instruction 
and  original  research,  it  has  been  determined  that  a  more 
commodious  library  should  be  built,  capable  of  affording 
suitable    facilities    and    accommodations    for    the    increasing 


DECREE,  AMENDMENTS    OF   OCTOBER    3,  1902.  77 

number  of  post  graduate  students,  as  well  as  those  receiving 
undergraduate  instruction.  The  inadequacy  of  the  other 
collections  of  books  in  this  vicinity  renders  an  unusually 
large  University  library  necessary,  and  the  present  library 
building  can  be  well  used  for  a  law  library  and  other 
necessary  purposes.  The  site  of  such  library  has  been 
selected  and  the  plans  of  the  interior  have  been  approved, 
and  its  erection  ^vill  probably  be  commenced  within  the 
coming  year. 

The  University  must  be  forever  maintained  upon  a 
strictly  non-partisan  and  non-sectarian  basis.  It  must  never 
become  an  instrument  in  the  hands  of  any  political  party 
or  any  religious  sect  or  organization.  I  believe  that  the 
moral  and  religious  development  of  the  University  will  be 
])etter  accomplished  if  entirely  free  from  all  denominational 
alliances,  however  slight  the  bond  may  be.  The  services 
in  the  Memorial  Church  must  be  simple  and  informal  in 
character,  and  the  theological  questions,  services  and  ob- 
servances, upon  which  the  sects  dififer,  should  no-t  be  entered 
upon,  so  that  members  of  every  church  may  Avorship  and 
receive  instruction  therein  not  inconsistent  with  their  indi- 
vidual beliefs.  Provision  has  been  made  whereby  all  those 
who  love  Our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  may  partake  of  the  Sacra- 
ment of  the  Lord's  Supper  at  stated  intervals  in  the  Me- 
morial  Church.  Attendance  at  religious  services  shall  be 
entirely  optional,  and  no  profession  of  religious  faith  or  belief 
shall  be  exacted  of  any  one  for  any  purpose. 

I  desire  that  the  University  shall  forever  be  kept  out 
of  politics,  and  that  no  professor  shall  electioneer  among 
or  seek  to  dominate  other  professors  or  the  students  for 
the  success  of  any  political  party  or  candidate  in  any 
political  contest.  I  hope  that  every  voter,  whether  professor 
or  student,  will  always  thoroughly  inform  himself  upon  every 
principle  involved,  and  as  to  the  merits  of  e\'ery  candidate 
seeking  his  suftrage,  and  then  vote  according  to  his  own  best 
judgment  and  conscience,  irrespective  of  any  importunity  of 
others.  And  in  order  to  freely  do  this  he  should  not  be  sub- 
jeeted    to    any    importunity,    since    it    is    possible    that    cases 


78  DECREK.  A.M1;NI)M1;\  TS    OF    OCTOBEK    :5,  19U2. 

might    arise    where    a    mere    suggestion    might   be    understood 
to  be  a  eoxert  demand. 

It  has  been  the  history  of  Universities  that  their  pro- 
fessors rarely  take  the  public  rostrum  in  political  campaigns. 
The  \ery  infrequency  of  their  having  done  so  would  seem  to 
prove  that  there  is  some  sound  reason  why  they  should  not. 
The  reason,  I  think,  is  not  far  to  find.  When  a  professor 
speaks  to  a  public  audience,  the  audience  is  gathered  together 
to  some  extent,  at  least,  because  he  is  a  professor  of  a 
university.  Whether  they  should  do  so  or  not,  his  hearers 
consider  that  he  ai)pears  as  a  representative  of  the  university 
of  which  he  is  a  professor,  and  therefore  voices  its  views 
and  sentiments.  It  is  impossible  for  some  members  of  his 
audience,  and  probably  impossible  for  most  of  them,  to 
entirely  disassociate  the  man  from  his  position.  If  they  go 
to  hear  him  because  he  is  a  professor,  they  must  almost 
necessarily  assume  that  the  views  and  sentiments  which 
he  expresses  have  a  general  foothold  in  his  uni\-ersity; 
whereas  such  assumption  may  be  ver}-  far  from  the  actual 
fact  of  the  case,  and  the  public  may  thereby  be  greatly 
deceived.  .So  far  as  he  may  represent  himself  only  ;  so  far 
as  it  is  the  man  and  not  the  professor  that  speaks  to  public 
audiences,  he  should  have  the  fullest  possible  liberty  (;f 
speech,  for  he  but  represents  himself  and  is  accountable  only 
to  himself;  l)ut  when  the  circumstances  are  such  that  he 
must  know  that  he  is  being  deemed  by  his  hearers,  or  any 
of  them,  to  be  s])eaking  for  his  university  and  voicing  its 
views,  then,  unless  he  knows  that  he  is  indeed  truly  aufl 
correctly  voicing  those  views,  unless  he  knows  that  he  is 
not  decei\"ing  his  hearers  in  that  regard,  or  e\en  if  lie  thinks 
he  is  correctly  stating  the  views  of  his  university,  yet  as  he 
has  not  and  could  not  ha\e  an>'  authority  to  speak  for  it, 
he  should  keep  silent. 

If  the  professors  «>f  ihis  University  believe  the  aliove 
ti)  be  the  true  reason  why  jirofessors  of  other  universities 
ha\e  nearly  altogether  abstained  from  entering  ui)on  the 
pul)lic  rostrum  in  the  discussion  of  pi>litical  and  other 
questions    upop     wliich    imbli'-    feeling    runs    high    and    ui)on 


DP:CREE,  amendments    of    OCTOBEE    3,  1902.  79 

which  llie  public  is  itself  divided,  then  I  indulge  ni  the  hope 
that    they    will    follow    their    example. 

The  Uni\ersity  Avas  not  made  independent  of  State  con- 
trol because  of  any  purpose  of  the  founders  inconsistent  with 
its  character  as  a  State  Institution,  but  because  they  believed 
that  its  purposes  could  be  better  and  more  surely  accom- 
plished through  a  Board  of  Trustees  free  from  possible 
political  or  partisan  influence,  and  independent  of  all  external 
control  save  that  of  Courts  of  Equity.  Notwithstanding  their 
creation  of  the  University  as  an  independent  institution,  it 
was  the  wish  and  purpose  of  the  Founders  that  it  should  be 
kept,  as  far  as  practicable,  in  harmony  with  the  public 
educational  system,  and  tliat,  in  the  matter  of  entrance 
requirements  as  well  as  in  every  other  relation  of  the  Uni- 
versity with  the  general  public,  the  University  authorities 
should  take  into  consideration  the  welfare  of  those  who  do 
not  attend  the  UniAcrsity  as  well  as  those  who  do,  and  adopt 
the  policy  which,  in  their  judgment,  is  in  accord  with  the 
spirit  of  the  foundation,  as  above  defined.  AA'ithout  neces- 
sarily lowering  the  standard  of  regular  admission  to  the 
University,  concessions  may  be  made  in  admission  upon 
partial  or  special  standing,  or  otherwise,  in  favor  of  students 
coming  from  high  schools  which  cannot  afford  to  maintain 
a  separate  course  of  study  for  the  benefit  of  the  small 
minority  of  high  school  students  Avho  go  to  universities,  but 
ofifer  a  reasonable  number  of  practical  studies  for  the  prepa- 
ration of  their  students  for  an  immediate  entry  into  the  active 
walks  of  life.  vSo  long  as  the  public  maintains  an  eiificient 
high  school  system,  the  education  given  by  the  University 
to  a  student  should  commence  where  that  given  to  him 
by  the  high  school  ends  ;  and  there  should  be  no  gap  in  his 
necessary  education  between  where  the  high  school  ends 
and  the  Universit}'  begins  and  which  omitted  part  of  his 
education  could  only  be  supplied  by  private  schools — the 
latter  not  licing  gcneralh^  accessible  to  the  students  of  limited 
means.  The  University  authorities  are,  however,  the  sole 
judges  of  the  qualifications  of  applicants  for  admission  to 
any  department  of  the  institution. 


80  DEC  KKE,  AMKXDMK.XT^    UE    OtTOBKK    3,  1902. 

Tlie  University  has  been  endowed  with  a  view  of  offering 
instruction  free,  or  nearly  free,  that  it  may  resist  the  tendency 
to  the  stratification  of  society,  by  keeping"  open  an  avenue 
whereby  the  deserving  and  exceptional  nun'  rise  through  their 
own  elTorts  from  the  lowest  to  the  highest  stations  in  life. 
A  spirit  of  equalit}'  must  accordingly  be  maintained  within 
the  University.  To  this  end  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
University  authorities  to  prohibit  excessive  expenditures  and 
other  excesses  on  the  part  of  students,  and  the  formation  or 
growth  of  any  organization,  custom  or  social  function  that 
tends  to  the  development  of  exclusive  or  undemocratic  castes 
within  the  L'niversity,  and  to  exclude  from  the  institution 
any  one  whose  conduct  is  inconsistent  with  the  spirit  of  the 
foundation. 

While  its  chief  object  is  the  instruction  of  students  with 
a  view  to  producing"  leaders  and  educators  in  every  field  of 
science  and  industry,  the  Universit}^  was  also  designed  "to 
advance  learning,  the  arts  and  sciences ;"  and  to  this  end  the 
institution  should  assist,  by  experimentation  and  research,  in 
the  advancement  of  useful  knowledge  and  in  the  dissemi- 
nati(^n   and   practical   application  of  the   same. 

The  I'^ounding  Grant  provides  that  the  Trustees  shall 
establish  and  maintain  at  the  University  an  educational 
s)'stem  which  will,  if  foliovvcd,  fit  the  graduate  for  some 
useful  ])ursuit.  and  to  this  end,  cause  the  pupils,  as  early 
as  may  be,  to  declare  the  particular  calling  which  they 
ma}'  desire  to  pursue.  The  purpose  of  this  requirement  is 
not  only  to  assure  the  jiractical  character  of  the  instruction, 
and  to  prevent  such  instruction  as  will  not  tend  directly  "to 
qualify  students  for  personal  success  and  direct  usefulness  in 
life,"  but  to  protect  the  Uni\crsity  from  the  cost  of  instruct- 
ing and  from  the  baneful  influence  of  a  class,  bound  to 
infest  the  institution  as  the  country  grows  older,  who  wish 
to  acquire  a  University  degree  or  fashionable  educational 
veneer  for  the  mere  ornamentation  of  idle  and  purposeless 
lives. 

The  moving  spirit  of  the  Founders  in  the  foundation 
and  endowment  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  I'niversitv  was 


DECREE,  RESIGXATIOX    OF      SURVIVIXG    FOUNDER.         81 

love  of  humanity  and  a  desire  to  render  the  greatest  possible 
service  to  mankind.  The  University  was  accordingly  (de- 
signed for  the  betterment  of  mankind  morally,  spiritually, 
intellectually,  physically  and  materially.  The  public  at  large, 
and  not  alone  the  comparatively  few  students  who  can  attend 
the  University,  are  the  chief  and  ultimate  beneficiaries  of  the 
foundation.  While  the  instruction  offered  must  be  such  as 
will  qualify  the  students  for  personal  success  and  direct 
usefulness  in  life,  they  should  understand  that  it  is  ofifered 
in  the  hope  and  trust  that  they  will  become  thereby  of 
greater  service  to  the   public. 

As  stated  in  the  letter  to  the  Trustees,  accompanying 
the  Founding  Grant,  "the  object  is  not  alone  to  give  the 
student  a  technical  education,  fitting  him  for  a  successful 
business  life,  but  it  is  also  to  instill  into  his  mind  an  appre- 
ciation of  the  blessings  of  this  Government,  a  reverence  for 
its  institutions,  and  a  love  of  God  and  humanity,  to  the 
end  that  he  may  go  forth  and  by  precept  and  example 
spread  the  great  truths  by  the  light  of  which  his  fellow  men 
will  be  elevated  and  taught  how  to  obtain  happiness  in  this 
world,  and  in  the  life  eternal." 

VI. 

That  the  trusts  set  forth  in  and  created  by  said  Found- 
ing Grant  and  amendments  thereof  made  prior  to  the  1st  day 
of  June,  1903,  were  upon  said  1st  day  of  June,  1903,  further 
duly  and  regularly  amended  by  said  surrender,  resignation  and 
grant  dated  and  executed,  acknowledged  and  delivered  by  said 
Jane  Lathrop  Stanford,  on  that  day,  as  follows,  to-wit: 

NOW,  THEREFORE,  I,  JANE  LATHROP  STAN- 
FORD, do  hereby  resign,  relinquish  and  surrender  all  the 
riglus.  ])o\vcrs,  privileges  and  duties  reserved  to,  tleve)lving 
upon,  or  vesting  in  me,  by  reason  of  the  aforesaid  conditions 
and  reservations  of  said  Founding  Grant  or  by  reason  of  the 
same  or  any  similar  or  other  conditions  or  reservations  con- 
tained in,  or  attaching  by  inference  or  operation  of  law  to, 
an}-   other   grant   or   instrument    granting  or   gi\-ing   property 


82  1;K(  Ri:i:.  inisKiXATloX   of  sukvivixc    foiwdkr. 

in  trust  tor  ihc  liiuiulini;'.  luaintciumcc  or  l)cnetit  of  said  L'ni- 
ve.rsit}',  or  contained  ni.  or  attaching"  by  inference  or  opera- 
tion of  law  to.  an}'  other  instrument  atifecting  the  trusts 
created  for  the  founding,  endowment,  maintenance  or  l)enefit 
of  said   Universit}-. 

AXn  M'R'niKI^MoRE.  I  hereby  resign,  relincfuish  and 
surrender  all  the  rights.  i)owers,  privileges  and  duties 
reserved  to.  dexohing  upon,  or  vesting  in  me  as  widow  of 
the  said  Leland  Stanford  or  as  Surviving  Founder  of  the 
said  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,  over,  in.  or  con- 
cerning all  of  the  property  of  every  kind  nt)w  held  or  here- 
after given  or  granted  in  trust  for  the  founding,  endowment, 
maintenance,  equipment  <n-  benefit  of  the  said  University 
or  of  any  department  thereof,  and  also  over,  in  or  concernii'vg 
the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  I'niversity  and  every  part  and 
department  thereof:  and  I  hereby  resign,  relinquish  and 
surrender  all  the  rights.  ])owers  and  privileges  given  to  or 
vesting  in  me,  oxer,  in  or  concerning  any  of  such  pro]')crty 
and  over,  in  and  concerning"  said  University,  mider  or  by 
virtue  of  any  authorization  or  I'ower  of  Attorney  executed 
b}'  or  on  behalf  of  said  Uoard  of  Trustees,  and  particularly 
under  or  by  virtue  of  a  certain  resolution  passed  by  said 
Board  t)n  the  31st  day  of  May,  1899.  and  a  certain  Power  of 
Attorney  executed  on  the  same  date  in  the  nan"ie  of  said 
Board  of  Trustees,  in  pursuance  of  said  resolution,  and  I 
hereby  consent  to  the  revocation  of  all  such  resolutions  and 
Powers  of  Attorney. 

\nd  I  do  hereby  authori/.e,  direct  and  empower  the  said 
Leon  Sloss.  Charles  (i.  Lathrop.  Russell  J.  Wilson,  S.  F. 
Lcib,  Timothy  lIoi)kins,  Josei)h  I),  (iranl,  Horace  Davis. 
T.  r..  Mch'arland.  l^^rank  Miller,  (ieorge  I'.,  (iray  and  (ieorge 
E.  Crothers  of  California,  William  M.  Stewart  of  Xevada, 
Thomas  W.  Stanford  of  Australia,  and  W  hitelaw  Reid  of 
Xew  York,  now  constituting  and  comprising  the  Board 
of  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  I'niversity,' and 
their  successors,  to  at  once  assume  and  forever  exercise  and 
perform    all    the    rights,    powers,    i)ri\"ilegcs   and    duties    which 


DECREE,  GENERAL    PROVISIONS.  83 

would  otherwise  devolve  upon  or  vest  in  them  upon  my 
death,  o^•er.  in.  or  concernmg-  all  of  the  property  of  every 
kind  now  held  or  hereafter  given  or  granted  in  trust  for  the 
founding,  endowment,  maintenance,  equipment  or  benefit  of 
the  said  University  or  any  department  thereof,  and  all  the 
rights,  powers,  privileges  and  duties  which  would  otherwise 
devolve  upon  or  vest  in  them  upon  my  death,  over,  in,  or 
concerning  the  said  Iceland  Stanford  Junior  University  and 
e\'ery  part  and  department  thereof,  and  I  do  hereby  give, 
grant,  relinquish  and  surrender  all  such  rights,  powers,  privil- 
eges and  duties  to  the  said  Trustees  and  to  their  successors 
forever,  and  all  said  rights,  powers,  privileges  and  duties 
shall  be  exercised  and  performed  by  the  said  Trustees  to 
the  same  extent  that,  and  in  the  same  manner  as  it  is  pro- 
vided that  they  shall  be  exercised  and  performed  after  my 
death  :  and  I  do  hereby  give,  grant,  assign  and  surrender  to 
the  said  Trustees  and  to  their  successors  forever,  in  trust 
for  the  benefit  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,  all 
the  right,  title  and  interest  which  I  may  now  have,  by  oper- 
ation of  law  or  otherwise,  in  or  to  any  and  all  of  the  property 
of  every  kind  now  held  in  trust  for  the  founding,  endowmient, 
maintenance,  equipment  or  benefit  of  the  said  University  or 
any  department  thereof. 

That  the  foregoing  are  all  of  the  Trusts  set  forth  in  and 
created  by  said  Founding  Grant  and  all  of  the  amendments 
and  modifications  of  said  Trusts,  and  are  the  Trusts  per- 
mitted, approved  and  confirmed  by  the  aforesaid  Section  10  of 
Article  TX  of  the  Constitution  of  the  State  of  California,  and 
are  all  of  tlie  trusts  provided  for  in  the  grant  founding  said 
University,  and  amendments  thereof,  and  grants,  bequests  and 
devises  supplementary  thereto,  within  the  meaning  of  said 
Section  10  of  said  Constitution. 

That  all  of  the  foregoing  trusts  and  amendments  were 
created  under  and  in  accordance  with  that  certain  Act  of  the 
Legislature  of  the  State  of  California,  approved  ]\Iarch  9, 
1885.  entitled,  "An  act  to  advance  learning,  the  arts  and 
sciences,  and  to  promote  the  public  welfare,  by  providing 
for  the  conveyance,  holding,  and  protection  of  property,  and 


84  DECREE,    GENERAL     PROVISIONS. 

the  creation  of  trusts  for  the  foundiiiii-.  eiulownient,  erection 
and  maintenance  within  this  State  of  universities,  colleges, 
schools,  seminaries  of  learning,  mechanical  institutes,  mu- 
seums, and  galleries  of  art,"  and  shall  be  construed  in  accord- 
ance with  the  provisions  of  said  Act  so  far  as  rules  of  con- 
struction  are   therein   stated. 

That  so  far  as  any  of  the  foregoing  trusts  and  amend- 
ments are  inconsistent  or  in  conflict  with  each  other  the 
later    in    date    or    in    order    supersede    the    earlier. 

That  all  of  the  rights,  powers,  privileges  and  duties,  over, 
in  or  concerning  all  property  held  in  trust  for  the  founding?, 
endowment,  maintenance  or  benefit  of  said  Leland  Stanford 
Junior  University,  including  all  of  the  property  herein 
described,  and  over,  in  or  concerning  the  said  Leland  Stan- 
ford Junior  University  or  any  department  thereof,  which  it 
w^as  provided  in  the  aforesaid  grants,  deeds,  conveyances 
and  other  instruments,  copies  of  which  are  set  out  in  said 
petition,  or  in  any  other  instruments,  should  vest  in  and 
devolve  upon  the  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
University  upon  the  death  of  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stan- 
ford, are  now  vested  in  and  have  devolved  upon  the  afore- 
said  Trustees,   petitioners   herein. 

It  was  the  paramount  purpose  of  the  Founders  of  the 
Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  to  promote  the  public 
welfare  by  founding,  endowing  and  having  maintained  a 
University  with  the  colleges,  schools,  seminaries  of  learning, 
mechanical  institutes,  museums,  galleries  of  art,  and  all  other 
things  necessary  and  appropriate  to  a  I'niversity  of  high 
degree,  and  all  directions  or  reservations  in  the  I'^mnding 
Grant  and  all  amendments  or  attempted  amendments  thereof 
by  the  Founders,  or  by  the  Survivor  of  them,  are  incidental 
and  subordinate  to  that  paramount  purpose. 

That  the  number  of  Trustees  constituting  said  Hoard  of 
Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  has  been 
changed  to  fifteen,  and  that  number  does  now  and  shall 
hereafter  constitute  a  full  Board  of  said  Trustees. 

That  there  is  now  one  vacancy  in  said  Board  of  Trustees 
caused  by  the  resignation  of  said  X.  W.  Spaidding. 


DECREE,  GENERAL   PROVISIONS.  85 

That  the  term  of  office  as  a  Trustee  of  the  Leland 
Stanford  Junior  University  of  each  of  the  said  Timothy  Hop- 
kins, Horace  Davis,  Thomas  B.  McFarland,  George  E. 
Gray,  William  AI.  Stewart,  Joseph  D.  Grant,  Samuel  F.  Leib, 
Leon  SIoss,  Thomas  \A'.  Stanford,  Frank  Miller,  Charles  G. 
Lathrop,  and  Russell  J.  Wilson,  is  for  life ;  and  that  the  term 
of  office  of  the  said  Whitelaw  Reid  and  George  E.  Crothers, 
as  such  Trustees,  is  ten  years  from  and  after  the  date  of  their 
appointment  and  election ;  and  that  the  term  of  office,  as  a 
Trustee  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,  of  each 
person  hereafter  elected  as  svicli  trustee  shall  be  ten  years 
from  and  after  the  date  of  election  of  such  person. 

That  a  majority  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford 
Junior  Liniversity  shall  constitute  a  quorum  and  the  con- 
currence of  a  majority  (eight)  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  shall 
be  necessary  and  sufficient  for  the  sale  of  property,  for  the 
investment  of  funds,  or  for  the  transaction  of  any  other 
business,  irrespective  of  whether  or  not  they,  or  any  of  them, 
shall  be  officers  of  said  board  or  members  of  any  committee 
thereof. 

That  the  said  Trustees  of  the  said  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
University  have  the  power  to  and  may  perform  and  exercise 
all  of  their  powers  and  duties  in  a  corporate  capacity. 

That  the  said  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
University  may  exercise  and  perform  all  their  powers  and 
duties  in  the  same  manner  and  to  the  same  extent  as  though 
the  aforesaid  act  of  the  Legislature,  granting  corporate 
powers  and  privileges  had  not  been  passed  and  corporate 
powers  and  i)rivileges  had  not  been  assumed  thereunder. 

This  judgment  shall  not  affect  any  right  or  interest  of 
any  lessee,  his  heirs  or  assigns,  under  or  by  virtue  of  any 
lease  heretofore  made  to  any  such  lessee  of  any  lot  or  parcel 
of  land  or  building  or  other  improvement  situate  and  being 
upon,  or  part  of;   the   aforesaid  Palo  Alto   Farm. 

That  upon  the  death  of  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford, 
the  aforesaid  home  and  premises  situated  on  the  southwe-t 
corner  of  Powell  and  California  Streets,  in  the  said  City  and 
County    of    San    Francisco,    and    more    particularly    described 


86  nKCRKK.   ENDORSEMENTS. 

in  subdivision  '"B"  ol  the  foregoing  description  of  property, 
shall  be  used  lor  educational  ])urposes  in  connection  with  or 
as  a  de]>artnient  of  said  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University, 
but  ilio  same  shall  nexcr  be  a])propriatcd  for  the  use  of  a 
club-house,  a  boarding-house  or  ])lace  of  undignified  amuse- 
ment. 

M.   H.   HYLAND, 

Judge. 
San  Jose,  July  3d,  1903. 

(Endorsed) : 
Filed 

Jul.  6,   1903, 
9:30  a.  m. 

Henry  A.  Pfister,  Clerk. 
By   A.    C.    Russ, 

Deputy. 

Entered  July  22nd,  1903. 

Henry   A.    Pfister,    Clerk. 
By  J.  M.  Chilue. 

Deputy. 


PART  IV. 


SUPPLEMENTARY    DECREE 


September  27,    1907 


No.    14,912  Department  2 


IN  THE 


Superior  Court 


OF  THE 


State  of  California  in  and  for  the  County 
of  Santa  Clara 


In  the  Matter  of  the  AppHcation  of 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  Univer- 
sity and  of  Timothy  Hopkins,  et  al.,  as  Trustees  of  the 
Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  for  aid  and  instruc- 
tion from  the  Court. 


Supplementary  Decree 


WILSON  &  WILSON 

Attorneys  at  Law 

Union  Trust  Buildin.u".  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


In  the  Superior  Court  of  the  State  of  California,  in  and  for  the 
County  of  Santa  Clara 


In  the   Matter  of  tlie  Application  of 

THE  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES  OF  THE  LELAXD 

STANFORD  JUNIOR  UNIVERSITY 

and  of 

'J'imcjthy  Hopkins,  Horace  Davis,  Thomas  B.  AIcFar- 

land,  George  E.  Gray,  Joseph  D.  Grant,  Samuel  F.  pgg^ 
Leib,  Leon  Sloss,  Thomas  \\\  Stanford,  Frank  Mil- 1  |i|g  2 
ler,  Charles  G.  Lathrop,  Whitelaw  Reid,  George  E. 
Crothers,  William  Babcock,  Charles  P.  Eells,  and 
Vanderlynn  Stow,  as  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stan- 
ford Junior  University,  for  aid  and  instruction  from 
the  Court. 


No. 
14,912 


Supplementary  Decree 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
University,  and  Timothy  Hopkins,  Horace  Davis,  Thomas  B. 
Mcl'arland,  George  E.  Gray,  Joseph  D.  Grant,  Samuel  F.  Leib, 
Leon  Sloss,  Thomas  W.  Stanford,  l-'rank  Miller,  Charles  G. 
Lathrop,  Whitelaw  Reid,  George  E.  Crothers,  \\'illiam  Bab- 
cock, Charles  V.  Eells  and  X'anderlynn  Stow,  as  Trustees  of 
the  Leland  Stanford  Jimior  L'niversity,  having  on  the  20th  day 
of  Sejitember,  1907,  filed  in  this  Court  a  supj^lementary  petition 
asking  the  aid  and  instruction  of  this  Court  in  construing  their 
power  to  invest  the  trust    funds   in   their  hands   in   loans  upon 


92  SUPPLE:M1-:NTAEY    Dl'X'REE. 

the  security  of  real  estate  or  other  satisfactory  security,  and  in 
the  purchase  of  real  estate,  and  as  io  investing  a  portion  of  said 
funds  in  improvements  on  real  estate,  and  as  to  their  power 
to  sell  or  lease  the  lot  of  land  (m  the  southwesterl}-  corner  of 
California  and  Powell  Streets  in  the  City  and  County  of  San 
Francisco.  State  of  California,  and  for  such  other  and  further 
or  different  relief  and  aid  and  instruction  in  regard  to  investing 
said  trust  funds  and  in  regard  to  their  power  and  duties,  as 
may  l)e  proper  and  just  in  the  premises,  and  the  Court,  by  its 
order  duly  made  and  filed  on  the  20th  day  of  September,  1907, 
having  set  said  petition  for  hearing  on  Friday,  the  27th  day  of 
September.  1907,  at  the  hour  of  ten  o'clock  A.  ]\r.  of  said  day 
in  tlic  Courtroom  of  Department  Numl^er  Two  of  the  Superior 
Court  of  the  State  of  California,  in  and  for  the  County  of  Santa 
Clara,  in  the  Courthouse  in  the  Cit}'  of  San  Jose,  and  having 
b}^  said  order  directed  that  the  Clerk  give  notice  of  said  hear- 
ing by  posting  notices  thereof  in  the  manner  provided  by  law 
at  least  five  days  before  said  hearing: 

Xow%  on  this  27th  day  of  September,  1907,  said  petition 
coming  on  regularly  to  be  heard  at  the  time  and  place  fixed 
by  said  order,  and  due  proof  being  made  to  the  satisfaction  of 
the  Court  and  filed  herein  that  notice  of  this  hearing  was  duly 
given  by  posting  as  required  by  said  order  and  according  to 
law,  and  it  appearing  that  the  Court  has  jurisdiction  to  hear 
and  determine  the  matters  set  forth  in  said  petition,  and  all  of 
the  petitioners  herein  appearing  by  Wilson  &  Wilson,  their 
attorneys,  and  no  other  person  or  persons  appearing  and  no 
contest  or  other  opposition  (jr  objection  to  tlie  said  petition 
being  made  or  filed  by  an}-  person  whatever,  the  Court  there- 
uj)()n  ])roceeded  to  hear  said  petition  and  the  ex'idence  thereon, 
and  petitioners  Samuel  I-".  Feib,  Charles  G.  Lathrop,  George  E. 
brothers  and  Timothy  ITojikins.  Trustees,  being  sworn  and 
exaniiiu'd  in  o])cn  Court,  and  other  evidence,  oral  and  docu- 
mentary, being  introduced  and  heard  relative  to  and  in  supjiort 
of  the  allegations  of  said  petition,  and  the  matters  being  sub- 
mitted, after  due  i)rcscntation,  for  the  decision  of  the  Court, 
and   the   Court   being  fullv   adxiscd.   it   is   now,  on   motion   of 


SUPPLEMENTAEY   DECREE.  93 

Counsel  for  petitioners,  ORDERED,  ADJUDGED  and  DE- 
CREED as  follows,  to-wit : 

1.  That  this  Court  has  full  jurisdiction  in  this  proceeding 
to  hear  this  petition  and  to  determine  all  matters  set  forth 
therein  and  to  grant  the  relief  prayed  for. 

2.  That  all  the  allegations  of  said  petition  are  true. 

3.  That  the  petitioners  Timothy  Hopkins,  Horace  Davis, 
Thomas  B.  McFarland,  George  E.  Gray,  Joseph  D.  Grant, 
Samuel  F.  Leib,  Leon  Sloss,  Thomas  W.  Stanford,  Frank  Mil- 
ler, Charles  G.  Lathrop,  AVhitelaw  Reid,  George  E.  Crothers, 
\\'illiam  Babcock,  Charles  P.  Eells  and  Vanderlynn  Stow  are 
all  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University 
and  do  now  constitute  the  entire  Board  of  Trustees  of  said 
University,  and  that  the  legal  title  in  fee  simple  to  all  of  the 
properties  referred  to  in  said  petition  is  now  vested  in  said 
Trustees,  petitioners  herein,  and  that  they  hold,  manage  and 
control  all  of  said  properties  for  the  founding,  endowment, 
maintenance  and  Ijcnefit  of  the  said  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
University  upon  and  subject  to  the  trusts  in  the  said  petition 
set  forth  and  referred  to;  and  that  all  of  the  properties  so  held 
in  trust  constitute  a  single  trust  fund. 

4.  That  the  trusts  set  forth  in  said  petition  constitute  a 
public  benefaction  with  no  specially  designated  beneficiaries 
and  with  no  persons  legally  or  directly  interested  in  its  man- 
agement other  than  the  People  of  the  State  of  California. 

5.  That  imder  said  trusts  it  is  a  part  of  the  duties  of  said 
Trustees  and  their  successors  to  invest  and  re-invest  the  trust 
funds  in  their  hands  for  the  benefit  of  said  University  and  that 
it  is  at  times  difficult  and  at  other  times  impossible  to  invest 
the  funds  of  said  University  in  satisfactory  bonds  or  bonded 
securities  yielding  a  satisfactory  rate  of  interest,  and  that  the 
said  Board  of  Trustees  now  has  in  its  possession  large  sums  of 
money  which  are  bringing  in  practically  no  income  to  the 
said  University  because  of  the  said  Trustees  being  unable  to 
invest  the  same  in  safe  bonds  or  bonded  securities  yielding  a 
satisfactory  rate  of  interest. 


04  SUPPLEMENTARY    DRCREE. 

6.  That  there  is  now  a  ,qrcat  deniand,  parlieuhirly  in  the 
City  and  County  of  San  I'raneiseo,  State  of  Calift)rnia.  for 
money  to  be  used  in  the  construction  of  buildinj^s,  and  that 
large  sums  of  mone}"  can  l)e  loaned  with  i)erfect  safety  U])on 
the  securit}-  of  real  estate  in  llie  said  Cit}"  and  Comity  of 
San  I-'rancisco.  and  elsewhere,  or  upon  other  satisfactory- 
^ecurity,  so  as  to  ijroduce  a  rate  of  interest  in  excess  of  thai 
derixed  from  bonds  or  bonded  secm'ities. 

7.  That  the  lU^ard  of  Trustees  and  their  successors  may 
not  always  be  able  to  make  desirable  loans  of  all  the  uninvested 
funds  in  their  hands  or  to  inirchase  desirable  and  safe  bonds 
with  said  trust  funds,  owing^  tcj  changins^"  financial  conditions 
and  the  larg-e  amounts  of  money  which  they  have  from  time  to 
lime  in  their  possession,  and  that  it  is  desirable  to  invest  a 
])ortion  of  such  funds  in  real  estate  and  to  improve  the  same  ; 
that  a  portion  of  said  funds  can  be  so  invested  as  to  bring  a 
satisfactory  income  to  the  said  University. 

8.  That  at  the  time  of  the  execution  of  the  different  in- 
struments creating  said  trust,  the  home  and  pren.i.ses  men- 
tioned therein  on  the  southwesterly  corner  of  California  and 
Powell  Streets  in  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  State 
of  California,  consisted  of  a  lot  of  land  fronting  two  hundred 
and  six  feet  and  three  inches  on  the  southerly  line  of  California 
Street,  two  hundred  and  se\'enty-five  feet  on  the  westerly  line 
of  Powell  Street  and  two  hundred  and  six  feet  and  three  inches 
on  the  northerly  line  of  Pine  Street,  with  a  large  and  richl}- 
furnished  dwelling  house  thereon  which  was  and  had  been  the 
home  of  Leland  Stanford  and  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  and. 
because  of  the  fact  that  said  l)uilding  had  been  the  home  of 
herself  and  her  said  husband  Leland  ."-Stanford,  said  Jane 
Lathrop  Stanford  directed  that  the  said  home  and  ])remises 
should  not  be  sold  after  her  death,  but  that  the  same  should 
be  used  for  educational  ])urposes  in  connection  with  or  as  a 
de])artment  of  said  Ixland  Stanford  Junior  L'niversity  and  that 
the  same  should  never  be  api)ropriated  for  the  use  of  a  club 
house.    Ijoarding    house    or    place    of    undignified    amusement. 


Sri'PLEMENTARY    DECEEE.  95 

That  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  departed  this  life  on  the  28th 
day  of  February,  1905. 

9.  That  on  or  about  the  19th  day  of  April,  1906,  the  said 
building  and  home  on  said  lot  of  land  was  destroyed  by  fire 
and  the  said  lot  of  land  is  now  vacant  and  unproductive. 

That  b}-  reason  of  said  destruction  of  said  building  and 
home  an  exact  and  literal  compliance  with  the  directions  of 
said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  in  reference  thereto  is  impossible 
and  that  her  intention  in  regard  thereto  cannot  be  carried  out; 
and  that  the  result  which  the  said  Jane  L.  Stanford  evidently 
desired  to  avoid  at  the  time  of  making  said  restriction  to-wit : 
the  use  of  her  family  residence  and  home  for  undignified  pur- 
poses, cannot  now  happen  and.  therefore,  the  reason  for  mak- 
ing said  restrictions  no  longer  exists. 

That  said  lot  of  land  is  situated  in  a  very  hilly  portion  of 
the  said  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  and  cannot  well  be 
utilized  for  the  purposes  of  said  University  or  for  any  benevo- 
lent purpose  without  the  expenditure  of  a  large  sum  of  money 
and  that  the  same  probably  would,  if  so  utilized,  thereafter  be  a 
source  of  great  expense  to  said  Trustees. 

That  owing  to  its  location  practically  the  only  way  said 
lot  of  land  can  be  made  to  produce  an  income  is  for  said  Trus- 
tees to  erect  thereon  a  large  hotel,  apartment  or  club  house, 
which  it  is  not  now^  and  may  never  be  advisable  or  expedient 
for  them  to  undertake. 

10.  That  it  would  be  for  the  best  interests  of  said  trust 
and  said  University  to  invest  a  portion  of  the  funds  in  their 
hands  in  loans  on  the  security  of  real  estate  or  upon  other 
satisfactory  security  :  and  to  invest  a  portion  thereof  in  real 
estate  and  improvements  on  the  same,  and  to  lease  or  sell  said 
lot  of  land  on  the  southwest  corner  of  California  and  Powell 
Streets  in  said  Cit\-  and  County  of  San  I-^'ancisco,  if  a  satis- 
factory price  can  be  obtained  therefor,  and  re-invest  the  pro- 
ceeds of  such  sale  so  as  to  j^roduce  an  income  therefrom. 

11.  That  said  Hoard  of  Trustees  and  said  Trustees  and 
their  successors  ha\'e  the  power,  under  the  trusts  under  which 


96  SUPPLEMENTARY    DECREE. 

they  hold,  manage  and  control  said  trust  properties,  to  invest 
any  portion  of  said  trust  funds  in  loans  upon  the  security  of 
real  estate  or  upon  any  other  security  satisfactory  to  them ; 
and  lliat  they  have  the  power  to  invest  any  portion  of  said 
trust  funds  in  the  purchase  of  real  estate  and  the  power  to 
invest  any  portion  of  said  trust  funds  in  the  purchase  of  im- 
provements on  real  estate  or  in  the  erection  of  improvements 
on  real  estate. 

\2.  That  said  Board  of  Trustees  and  said  Trustees  and 
their  successors  have  the  power  under  said  trusts,  to  lease  said 
lot  of  land  at  the  southwesterly  corner  of  California  and 
Powell  Streets  in  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  State 
of  California,  said  lot  fronting  two  hundred  and  six  feet  and 
three  inches  on  the  southerly  line  of  California  Street,  two 
hundred  and  seventy-five  feet  on  the  westerly  line  of  Powell 
Street  and  two  hundred  and  six  feet  and  three  inches  on  the 
northerly  line  of  Pine  Street,  and  formerly  containing  the 
residence  of  the  said  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  and  the  said 
Leland  Stanford,  for  such  time  and  times  and  for  such  pur- 
poses and  on  such  terms  as  to  them  may  seem  advisable ;  and 
have  the  power  also  to  sell  and  convey  said  lot  of  land  at  such 
])rice  and  on  such  terms  as  to  them  may  seem  advantageous, 
and  to  transfer  the  proceeds  of  such  sale,  if  made,  to  the 
general  trust  fund  of  said  University. 

M.  II.  IIYLAND, 

Judge. 

Done  in  open  Court,  this  27lh  day  of  September,  A.  D. 
1907. 

( I'^idor.sed )  : 

Filed 

Sept.  27,  1907. 

Henry  A.  Pfister,  Clerk. 
By  R.  K.  O'Neil,  Deputy. 


PART  V. 


ARTICLES    OF 
ORGANIZATION    OF    THE    FACULTY 


ARTICLES 

OF 

ORGANIZATION    OF    THE    FACULTY 

OF 

THE  LELAND  STANFORD  JUNIOR 
UNIVERSITY. 


AS  ADOPTED   MARCH  THIRTY-FIRST 
NINETEEN     HUNDRED     AND     FOUR. 


CHAPTER     I. 

Section  1.  All  Statutes,  By-Laws  and  Regulations  are 
subject  to  the  University  Trusts  and  the  powers  and  duties 
vested  in  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  the  ['resident  of  the 
University. 

Sec.  2.  The  following  Articles  of  Organization  are 
subject  to  amendment  or  repeal  by  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

CHAPTER    II. 

The  President. 

Section  1.  The  responsibilities  and  duties  of  the  Presi- 
dent are  set  forth  in  the  L^niversit}-  Trusts  and  as  herein 
provided. 

Sec.  2.  The  President  shall  be  the  executi\-e  otTiccr  of 
the  Faculty  of  the  University. 

Sec.  3.  He  shall  be  primarily  responsible  for  the  enforce- 
ment of  discipline  in  the  University. 


100  OKCAMZATIOX    OF    FACrLTV. 

Sec.  4.  1  Ic  shall  be  ex-officio  Chairman  of  the  Academic 
Council  and  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Academic 
Council. 

Sec.  3.  lie  shall  be  ex-officio  head  of  the  faculty  or 
faculties  of  any  schools  which  ma}-  hereafter  be  organized 
by  the   Uoard  of  Trustees. 

Sec.  6.  lie  shall  be  the  official  medium  of  cc^mmunica- 
tion  between  the  teaching  force  of  the  University  and  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  and  between  the  students  of  the  Uni- 
versity and  the   Board  of  Trustees. 

Sec.  7.  He  shall  designate  a  full  professor  in  each 
department  to  act  as  executive  head  of  the  Department 
Faculty,  such  executive  head  to  hold  office  at  the  will  of  the 
President,  both  appointments  and  removals  of  heads  of 
Department  Faculties  to  ])e  made  after  consultation  with  the 
Advisory  Board  and  with  the  approval  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees. 

Sec.  8.  He  shall,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Advisory 
Board,  appoint  the  standing  committees  hereinafter  desig- 
nated as  Administrative,  and  shall  name  the  chairman  of 
such   committees. 


CHAPTER     III. 

Vice-President  or  Acting  President. 

Section  1.  In  the  al)sence  of  the  President  or  in  case 
of  his  inability  to  act.  a  Vice-President  or  Acting  President. 
to  be  appointed  by  the  Trustees,  shall  perform  his  functions. 

CHAPTER    IV. 

The    Academic    Council. 

Sectif>n  1.  The  jjcjwer  and  authority  of  the  whole  Uni- 
versity Faculty  is  vested  in  the  Academic  Ccjuncil. 


ORGANIZATTOX    OF    FACFLTY.  101 

Sec.  2.  It  consists  of  the  President  of  the  University, 
all  Professors  and  Associate  Professors,  the  Librarian,  the 
Registrar,  such  Assistant  Professors  as  have  been  upon  the 
roll  of  the  Faculty  for  three  years,  whether  as  Assistant 
Professors  or  Instructors,  and  such  other  officers  of  the 
University  or  members  of  the  teaching  staff  as  the  Academic 
Council  may,  with  the  assent  of  the  Board  of  Trustees, 
determine. 

Sec.  3.  The  Academic  Council  is  vested  with  all  of  the 
powers  and  duties  usually  vested  in  the  faculties  of  similar 
institutions  to  discuss  and  decide  upon  all  matters  of  internal 
policy,  except  as  herein  otherwise  provided.  It  has  general 
power  and  responsibility  for  the  internal  administration  of 
the  University,  subject  to  express  provisions  herein  contained 
respecting  the  methods  of  exercising  such  powers  through 
the  agency  of  its  Chairman  and  Committees,  the  Department 
Faculties  or  the  Advisory  Board. 

Sec.  4.  The  Council  shall  recommend  to  the  Trustees 
candidates  for  graduation. 

Sec.  5.  It  shall  have  power  to  instruct  the  Standing 
Committees  as  to  general  policy  or  general  regulations. 
Appeals  from  the  action  of  the  Academic  Committees  in 
special  or  individual  cases,  under  such  general  regulations  or 
policy,  shall  he  to  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Council. 
Appeals  from  the  action  of  the  Administrative  Committees 
in  special  or  individual  cases  shall  be  to  the  President. 

Sec.  6.  Subject  to  the  powers  and  duties  vesting  in  the 
Trustees,  all  general  Unixersity  regulations,  statutes  and 
rules  as  to  the  matters  within  the  province  of  the  Faculty, 
shall  be  initiated  in  and  passed  by  the  Academic  Council,  and 
shall  be  in  force,  subject  to  the  power  of  disapproxal  in  the 
Trustees,  cxccj^ting  that  no  regulation,  statute,  or  rule  involv- 
ing a  change  in  the  educational  ]:)olicy  of  the  L'niversity  in 
respect  to  the  requirements  of  admission,  the  course  of  study, 
or  the  conditions  of  graduation,  shall  take  effect  as  above 
until   the   same   shall   have   been   submitted   to  the   Trustees. 


102  t)K(,iA,\lZAT10X    OF    FACULTY. 

The  advisability  of  considering  any  proposed  legislation  may 
be  informally  suggested  to  the  Council  in  general  terms  by 
the  President  of  the  University  or  by  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

Sec.  7.  All  Committees  and  Department  Faculties  may 
be  instructed  in  their  duties  by  the  Council,  and  may  be 
called  upon  to  report  their  action   to  it. 

Sec.  8.  Tiie  Academic  Council  may  adopt  By-Laws  and 
Rules  of  Order  providing  for  its  organization  and  the  orderly 
conduct  of  its  affairs. 

Sec.  9.  A  majority  of  its  members  shall  constitute  a 
quorum  of  the  Academic  Coimcil. 


CHAPTER     V. 

The    Advisory    Board. 
Section  1. 

(a)  The  Advisory  Board  shall  consist  of  nine  members 
of  the  rank  of  Professor,  one  from  each  of  the  five  department 
groups,  as  enumerated  below,  and  four  chosen  without  refer- 
ence to  groups. 

(b)  The  existing  departments  of  the  University  shall  be 
divided  into  the  following  groups : 

1.  English,  Germanic  Languages,  Latin,  Greek,  Romanic 
Languages. 

2.  Zoology,  Physiology,  Plygiene,  Entomology,  Botany, 
Geology. 

3.  ^Mathematics,   Physics,  Chemistry,  Psychology. 

4.  Lavv,  Plistory,  Economics,  Education,  Philosophy. 

5.  Engineering,  Applied  Afathematics,  Drawing. 

fc)  New  departments  which  may  hereafter  1)e  created 
shall  be  assigned  to  one  of  the  al)ove  groups  by  the  President 
upon  the  advice  of  the  Advisory  Board,  and  subject  to  the 
approval  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


ORGANIZATION    OF    FACULTY.  103 

Sec.  2. 

(a)  Elections  shall  be  by  sealed  ballot,  without  nomi- 
nation. 

(b)  The  Council  shall,  on  the  first  Wednesday  in 
May,  1904,  first  elect  five  members,  one  from  each  depart- 
ment group,  and  thereafter  four  members  without  reference 
to   groups. 

(c)  Each  member  of  the  Council  voting  shall,  at  each 
ballot,  vote  for  as  many  candidates  as  are  to  be  chosen. 

(dj  At  each  ballot  those  receiving  the  highest  number 
of  votes  shall  be  declared  elected,  provided  that  each  shall 
have  received  a  majority  of  all  votes  cast. 

(e)  In  case  of  non-election  on  the  first  ballot,  balloting 
shall  be  continued  until  an  election   is   made. 

Sec.  3. 

fa)      The  term  of  office  shall  l)e  three  years. 

(b)  It  shall  be  determined  by  lot  who  of  those  chosen 
at  the  first  election  shall  hold  for  one,  two  or  three  years. 

(c)  X'acancies  by  exi)iration  of  term  shall  be  filled  by 
the  Council  i)y  election  on  the  first  Wednesday  in  ]\ray  of 
each  year  at  a  meeting  of  which  due   u.otice  has  been  given. 

(d)  \  acancies  caused  by  other  reasons  shall  be  filled 
for  the  unexpired  term  by  election  at  a  regular  meeting  or 
at  a  s])ecial  meeting  of  the  Council  called  for  the  purpose. 

(e)  In  al!  cases  election  shall  be  by  sealed  ballot,  with- 
out nomination,  and  grou])  representatives  shall  be  elected 
first. 

(i)  The  Registrar  shall  furnish  each  member  of  the 
Council  in  advance  with  a  list  of  eligible  candidates,  arranged 
alphabetically    by    (le])artment   groups. 

(g)  Six  nK'ml)ers  of  tlic  Adxisory  IJoard  shall  consti- 
tute  a   ([uorum. 

Sec.  4. 

(a.)  The  Advisory  Board  shall  advise  the  President  con- 
cerning any  matters  which  he  may  choose  to  refer  to  it. 


]^t4  OKCAMZATIOX    oF    IWcn/rV. 

(h)  All  cxccuiixc  acts  <>l"  j^cneral  imporlancc  such  as 
rcconiniciulalions  for  appointments,  promotions  and  dismis- 
sals, for  the  creation  of  new  departments  or  chairs,  and  for 
the  abolition  of  departments  or  cliairs.  shall  he  snbmitted  l)y 
the  {'resident  to  the  Advisory  iJoard  for  aj^proval  before  they 
shall  become  operatixe.  or  before  they  ma}'  be  snbmitted  to 
the  Trnstees  for  their  action,   when  such  action   is  necessary. 

(c)  The  President  may  submit  those  matters  to  the 
Aihisory  P.oard  orall)'  or  in  writinsii^  as  he  may  see  fit.  but 
aclitMi    thereon    shall    be    taken    in    exccutixe    session. 

(d)  In  all  cases,  in  piesentiuii-  such  matters  to  the  IJoard 
of  Trustees,  the  President  siiall  state  whether  or  not  they 
ha\e   the   approxal   of   the    Achisory    r)(~)ard. 

(e)  The  Ad\isory  P)oard  shall  be  jirixileged  to  make 
such  recommendations  to  the  ['resident,  re^ardin^:^  policy,  as 
it  may  decide  by  vote  to  be  expedient,  but  no  recommenda- 
tions for  appointments,  jiromotions,  or  dismissals  shall  orij^i- 
nate  with  the  Advisory  Board. 

(f)  The  Advisory  Board  shall  elect  by  ])allot  a  chairman 
and  a  Secretary  from   its  own  members. 

(g')  It  may.  by  a  x'ote  of  two-thirds  of  its  mend)ers. 
a])peal  to  the  'i'rustees  an}-  differences  between  the  President 
and   itself. 

(h)  The  .\(l\isory  Board  shall  ha\e  the  ])ower  to 
convene    the    Academic    Council    at    an}'    time. 

(i)  It  shall  kee])  systematic  records  of  its  ])roceedin!L;s, 
which   shall  be  accessible  to  the   President. 

(j)  The  .\(l\isor}'  luiard  nia\  at  an}  time  be  called 
together  b}-  its  chairman  or  b}-  the  President  of  ihe  I'ni- 
versity. 

CHAPTER    VI. 

Committees. 

.Sectif)n  1.  'J'here  shall  be  standing  eonunittees.  grouped 
as  follows: 


OlNIANIZATrOX    OF    FACULTY.  lOo 

(aj     AdministraU\c — ■ 

1.  Student  Aftairs 

2.  Athletics. 

3.  Pid^lic  Exercises. 

4.  Literary  Contests 

5.  Public  Health. 

().     J)cHn(|ucnt    Scholarship 

(b)  Academic — - 

1.  The  Executive  Committee  of  the  Council 

2.  .\dmission  and  Advanced  Standing 

3.  Registration. 

4.  (iraduation. 

.-I.  Schedule  and   Examinations 

6.  (Graduate   Study 

7.  Library 

8.  L'niversity   Publications. 

(c)  And  such  other  standing"  or  special  committees  as 
the   Academic  Council  ma}'   from   time  to  time  create. 

id]  All  standmg  committees  shall  consist  of  five  mem- 
bers unless  otherwise  pro\  ided  by  the  Academic  Council. 

Sec.  2.     ]\rcthr)d  of  A])pointment. 

(a)  Standing  Administrative  Committees  shall  be  ap- 
])()iutcd   !)}•  the    President   as  j^rovided  above. 

(b)  1.  The  Executive  Committee  of  the  Council  shall 
consist  of  the  President.  A^ice-President  or  Acting  President, 
Registrar  and  ten  other  uKMubers,  two  from  each  department 
group. 

2.  These  ten  members  shall  be  elected  by  the  Academic 
Council  at  the  same  meeting  at  which  the  members  of  the 
.\d\isory  IJoard  arc  elected. 

3.  Tt  shall  be  determined  by  lot  which  of  the  two 
UKMubers  from  each  group  elected  in  1904  shall  serve  for  two 
years  and  which   for  one  >ear. 

4.  Thereafter  one  mcml)er  shall  be  elected  amiuallv  from 
each   department   grou]). 


106  OKGANIZATION   OP   FACULTY. 

3.  \'acancies  caused  l)y  other  reasons  than  expiration  of 
term  shall  be  tilled  for  the  unexpired  term  by  election  at  a 
regular  meeting  or  at  a  special  meeting-  of  the  Council  called 
for  the  purpose. 

6.  In  all  cases,  election  >^hall  be  b\'  scaled  ballot,  without 
nomination. 

(c)  1.  The  other  standing  academic  committees  shall 
be  appointed  annually  in  May  of  each  year  by  the  [executive 
Committee. 

2.  Their  duties  shall  be  dchned  by  the  F.xecuti\-e  Com- 
mittee, subject  to  the  ap]>roval  of  the  Council.  ' 

Sec.  3.     Functions  of  the  Various  Committees. 

(a)  Standing   Administrative   Committees: 

1.  Student  Affairs:  The  Committee  on  Student  Affairs 
has  to  do  with  the  conduct  of  the  students  as  mciubers  of  the 
University   Community. 

2.  Athletics:  The  Committee  on  .Vthletics  has  to  do 
with  the  supervision  of  athletic  sports  within  the  University 
and   in   intercollegiate  events. 

3.  Public  Exercises:  The  Committee  on  Public  K.xcr- 
cises  has  to  do  with  ])ub]ic  L'ni\crsity  exercises,  lectures, 
assemblies,   etc. 

4.  Literary  Contests:  The  Committee  on  Literary  Con- 
tests acts  as  an  advisory  coiumittec  having  to  do  witli  inter- 
collegiate or  other  public  literary  contests. 

5.  Public  Health:  The  Conunittee  on  rul)]ic  llcallh 
considers  matters  pertaining  to  the  health  of  the  L'niversity 
community  in  consultation  with  the  jjropcrly  constituted 
authorities. 

6.  Delincpient  .Sclu)]ar,~.hip :  The  (ommittee  on  Uclin- 
rpient  Scholarship  has  to  do  with  the  status  of  students  in 
the  Uni\-ersity  so  far  as  their  scholarship  is  concerned. 

(b)  Standing   .Academic   C'^Mumitlees : 

L  a.  The  Executive  Coniinitlce  shrdl  ai)point  the  .Aca- 
demic  Committees  of  the   Council. 


ORGANIZATION    OF    FACULTY.  107 

b.  All  members  of  the  Academic  Council  shall  be  eligible 
for  appointment  to  any  committee. 

c.  Appeals  from  the  action  of  the  Academic  Committees 
shall  be  to  the  Executive  Committee. 

d.  The  other  committees  of  the  Council  shall  submit  any 
change  of  policy  or  general  regulations  or  any  new  measures 
or  general  regulations  to  the  Executive  Committee  for 
approval. 

e.  The  Executive  Committee  shall  formulate  the  duties 
and  control  the  policy  of  the  several  committees. 

f.  It  shall  be  subject  to  instruction  by  the  Council  on 
matters  concerning  general  policy  or  regulations,  but  its 
decisions  in  special  or  individual  cases  shall  not  be  subject 
to  revision  by  the  Council. 

g.  It  shall  have  power  to  recommend  the  creation  of 
new  academic  committees  but  may  not  create  them  without 
authority  of  the  Council. 

h.  It  shall  liaxe  power  to  call  meetings  of  the  Council 
at   any  time. 

i.  It  shall  have  tlie  right  to  consider  inter-departmental 
difficulties  and  shall  report  its  decisions  to  the  President  of 
the    Cnivcrsity. 

j.  It  shall  keep  systematic  records  of  its  proceedings, 
which  shall  be  accessible , to  the  members  of  the  Council. 

2.  Admission  and  A(l\-anced  Standing:  The  Committee 
on  Admission  and  Advanced  Standing  administers,  in  con- 
junction with  the  Registrar,  the  regulations  of  the  University 
regarding  admission  of  students  to  the  University. 

3.  Registrati(->n  :  The  Committee  on  Registration  admin- 
isters the  statutes  regarding  registration,  conditions  and 
failures,  irregular  hours  and  changes  in  study  lists,  granting 
of  leaves  of  absence  and  letters  of  honorable  dismissal. 

4.  Graduation:  The  Committee  on  Graduation  deter- 
mines  whether    candidates    have    completed    all    requirements 


lOS  C)K(!AMZATK)X    OF    FACTLTV. 

for  the  A.  V>.  degree  and  passes  upon  the  qualifications  for 
admission  to  candidacy   for  adxanced  degrees. 

5.  Schechile  and  Examinations:  The  Committee  on 
Schedule  and  Examinations  regulates  the  co-ordination  of  the 
schedule  of  lectures,  recitations  and  examinations. 

().  (Iraduate  Study:  The  Committee  on  Graduate  Study 
determines,  in  the  case  of  candidates  for  all  advanced  degrees, 
whether  the  requirements  laid  down  1)}-  the  Academic  Council 
have  been  met. 

7.  Library  :  The  Committee  on  the  Library  represents 
the  Council   in  relation   to  the  administration  of  the    Library. 

8.  L'nixersity  Publications:  The  Committe  on  Univer- 
sity Publications  has  to  do  with  the  publication  of  all  literary 
or  scientific  \v(~»rks  which  ma}"  be  published  by  the  I'niversity. 

(c)      Special   Committees: 

The  Academic  Council  may,  from  time  to  time,  elect  or 
provide  for  the  appointment  of  special  committees,  and  may 
assign  the  consideration  of  any  matter  within  its  jurisdiction 
to  anv  such  committee. 


CHAPTER     VIL 
The  Department  Faculties. 

Section   L 

(a)  The  Department  h^acultics  shall  consist  (-f  the 
Professors,  Associate  Professors,  Assistant  Professors  and 
Instructors  in  the  several  departments,  but  only  those  mem- 
bers who  are  mcml)ers  of  the  .\cadcmic  Conncil  shall  have 
the  right  to  vote. 

(b)  The  executive  head  of  a  Department  I'^acnlty  shall 
preside  at  the  meetings  of  the  Faculty  and  shall  act  as 
the  re])resentative  of  the  department  in  its  official  relations 
with  the  l're>ident.  the  .\cademic  Council,  and  the  other 
Departments. 

(c )  He  shall  sign  all  retpiisitions  for  supplies  and 
equipment   recpiired   by   the   Department. 


ORGAXIZATTOX    OF    FACULTY.  109 

Sec.    2. 

A  Department  Facult}'  shall  have  direction  of  the  work 
of  instruction  in  the  department  and  of  the  internal  adminis- 
tration of  the  department,  subject  only  to  such  control  as  is 
vested  in  the  Doard  of  Trustees,  the  President  of  the  Uni- 
versity or  the   Academic  Council. 

Sec.  3. 

(a)  All  matters  of  internal  administration  in  the  depart- 
ment shall  be  decided  in  conference  or,  if  necessary,  b}'  vote 
of  those  members  of  the  Department  Faculty  who  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Academic  Council. 

(b )  In  case  the  Executive  Head  of  the  Department  shall 
fail  to  concur  in  the  decision  of  the  Department  Faculty,  he 
shall  report  in  writing  the  action  of  the  Department  Faculty : 

(1.)  In  administrative  matters  to  the  Advisory  Board,  or: 
(2.)  In  academic  matters  to  the  Executive  Committee 
of  the  Academic  Council,  (with  a  written  statement  of  his 
reasons  for  non-concurrence,  and  the  other  members  of  the 
Department  Facult}-  may,  at  will,  make  a  written  statement  of 
their  position ). 

(c)  Any  member  of  the  Department  Faculty  shall  have 
a   like   right  to  appeal. 

(d)  The  Advisory  Board  or  the  Executive  Committee 
of  the  Council,  as  the  case  may  be,  shall  in  such  cases  con- 
sider the  course  to  be  pursued,  and  shall  submit  its  opinion 
in  writing  to  the  President  of  the  University,  whose  decision 
shall  be  final. 

(e)  The  proper  Department  Faculties  shall  determine 
by  vote  when  students  shall  be  recommended  for  graduation, 
and  the  Executive  Heads  shall  report  the  names  of  such 
students    to    the    proper    committee. 

Sec.  4.  Department  Faculties  may  adopt  by-laws  for 
regulating  the  internal  affairs  of  the  department  and  shall 
keep  a  record  of  their  official  acts. 

Sec.  5.  Meetings  of  a  Department  h'aculty  may  be 
called  by  the  Executi\c  Head  or  by  any  two  voting  members. 


110  ORGANIZATIOX    OF    FACrLTV. 

CHAPTER     VIII. 

The    Registrar. 

Section  1.  The  Registrar  shall  be  appointed  in  the  same 
manner  as  professors  are  ai)pointe{l.  and  shall  1)6  a  member 
of  the  Academic  Council. 

Sec.  2.  He  shall  be  responsible  for  the  care  of  the 
records  of  students. 

Sec.  3.  He  shall  be  the  official  medium  of  communica- 
tion between  the  students  and  the  academic  committees. 

Sec.  4.  1  le  shall  prepare,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the 
President  and  the  Executive  Committee,  all  official  publica- 
tions of  the  Uni\ersit}",  such  as  the  l^ei^ister,  bulletins, 
Directory,   etc. 

Sec.  5.  He  shall  have  control  of  such  clerical  assistants 
as  are  ])ro\ided  for  the  preparation  and  care  of  records  of 
the  academic   work  of  the   I'niversity. 

Sec.  6.  He  shall  conduct  such  a  bureau  of  information 
as  is  necessary  for  the  academic  work  of  the   Cniversity. 

Sec.  7.  lie  shall  issue  the  calls  for  meetings  of  the 
Council  an/1  of  the  various  committees  of  the  I'niversity.  as 
directed    by    the    ])ro])er    authorities. 

Sec.  8.  He  shall  be  secretar}'  of  the  Council  and  shall 
keep  a  record  c^f  its  proceedings. 

CHAPTER    IX. 

The  Librarian. 

Section  1.  The  Librarian  shall  be  appointed  in  the  same 
manner  as  proi'cssors  are  appointed,  and  shall  l)e  a  member 
of  tlie  Academic  Council. 

Sec.  2.  lie  shall  have  custody  of  all  books,  etc.,  belong- 
ing to  the  Cniversit}'  Library  or  to  De])artment  Libraries. 

Sec.  ?).  He  shall  have  control  of  all  assistants  who  shall 
be  employed   in  the  administration  of  the   Library. 


PART  VI. 


BY-LAWS    AND    RULES    OF    ORDER    OF    THE 
BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 


BY-LAWS  AND   RULES  OF  ORDER 

OF    TlIK 

BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 

or   THE 

LELAND    STANFORD    JUNIOR    UNIVERSITY 

(As  Adopted  March  26,  1904,  and  Revised   March  29,   1907) 


CHAPTER    I. 

Trustees. 

Section  1.  The  number  of  Trustees  is  fixed  at  fifteen, 
of  Avhom  those  appointed  before  May  31,  1899,  hold  office 
for  life,  and  all  appointed  or  elected  after  that  date  hold 
office   for  ten  years  only  after  such  appointment  or  election. 

Sec.  2.  The  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
University,  in  their  collective  or  corporate  capacity,  shall  be 
known  and  designated  as  "The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
Iceland   Stanford  Junior  University." 

Sec.  3.  All  vacancies  in  the  P.oard  shall  be  filled  by 
the  remaining-  Trustees  by  ballot,  either  at  the  annual  meeting 
or  at  a  special  meeting,  of  which  due  notice  shall  be  given 
stating  the  vacancy  to  be  filled,  and  the  terms  of  office  of 
Trustees  thus  elected   shall  be  ten  years. 

Sec.  4.  All  nominations  to  fill  vacancies  in  the  Board 
must  lie  over  for  at  least  thirty  days  before  being  voted 
upon.  Notice  of  such  nominations  must  be  mailed  to  each 
Trustee  at  least  twenty-five  days  before  the  meeting  at 
which  the  nomination  is  acted  upon,  and  the  ballots  of  eight 
Trustees  present   shall    be   required   to  elect. 


114  BV  LAWS. 

Sec.  5.     The  Trustees  shall  serve   without  compensation. 

Sec.  6.  Any  Trustee  may  for  ^ood  cause  l)e  removed 
by  a  proper  court  of  equity  jurisdiction,  after  notice  to  him, 
upon  the  application  of  the   lioard  of  Trustees. 

Sec.  7.  An}-  Trustee  may  in  writing'  delivered  to  the 
])oard  of  Trustees  resign  his  otilice  as  Trustee. 

Sec.  8.  The  I5oard  of  Trustees  shall  annually  report 
their  proceedings  to  the  person  who  for  the  time  being  shall 
fill  the  office  of  Governor  of  the  State  of  California,  with  a 
full  account  of  their  financial  operations  for  the  preceding 
}ear,  and  with  a  statement  of  the  financial  affairs  of  the 
institution. 

CHAPTER     II. 

Meetings. 

Section  1.  The  annual  meeting'  of  the  Board  shall  be 
held  on  the  first  day  of  August  of  each  }'ear,  at  the  same  hour 
and  place  as  the  regular  monthly  meetings,  unless  otherwise 
determined  by  resolution  of  the  Board,  at  which  meeting  the 
officers  of  the  ]>oard  for  the  coming  year  shall  be  elected.  If 
the  first  day  of  August  comes  on  a  Sunda}',  the  annual  meet- 
ing shall  be  held  on   the   following   .Monda}'. 

Sec.  2.  'I'he  Hoard  may  determine,  b}-  resolution  or 
By-Law,  when,  where  and  how  often  it  will  hold  regular 
meetings. 

Sec.  ?>.  SjuH-ial  meetings  ma\-  be  called  by  the  President 
or  Secretary  at  any  time,  and  must  be  called  at  the  written 
request  of  five  Trustees. 

.Sec.  4.  l)ue  notice  of  all  meetings  wliat(.'\er  shall  be  sent 
by  the  President  or  Secretary  to  each  Trustee  in  the  State 
of  California  by  mail,  telegraph  or  telephone  in  time  for  said 
Trustees  to  attend  the  same.  The  mailing  of  a  notice  to  each 
Trustee  addressed  to  his  residence  or  place  of  business  four 
days  before  any  meeting  is  sufficient  notice  of  such  meeting. 


BY-LAWS.  115 

The  recital  b}'  the  Secretary  in  the  minutes  that  due  notice 
was  given  shall  be  sufficient  evidence  of  the  fact. 

Sec.  5.  At  all  meetings  of  the  Board  a  majority  of  the 
Trustees  shall  constitute  a  quorum  and  the  concurrence  of  a 
majority  (eight )  of  the  Board  shall  be  necessary  and  sufficient 
for  the   transaction  of  any  business. 


CHAPTER    III. 

Officers. 

Section  1.  The  officers  of  the  Board  shall  consist  of  a 
President,  a  Vice-President,  a  Secretary  and  a  Treasurer,  who 
shall  be  elected  by  the  Board  on  the  first  day  of  August  of 
each  year  and  shall  hold  office  for  one  year  and  until  their 
successors  are  chosen  and  qualify. 

Sec.  2.  Their  term  of  office  shall  begin  immediately  after 
their  election. 

Sec.  3.  Vacancies  may  be  filled  for  the  unexpired  term 
at  any  regular  meeting  of  the  Board,  or  at  any  special 
meeting  called  for  the  purpose. 

Sec.  4.  In  the  absence  of  the  President  and  A^icc- 
President,  or  their  inability  to  act,  the  Board  may  elect  a 
President  pro  tempore,  who  shall  act  as  President  during 
such  absence  or  inability  to  act. 

Sec.  5.  In  the  Secretary's  absence  or  inability  to  act, 
the  Board  may  elect  a  Secretary  pro  tempore,  who  shall  act 
as  Secretary  during  such  absence  or  inability  to  act. 

Sec.  6.  The  Board  may  elect  an  Assistant  Treasurer  who 
shall  act  as  Treasurer  in  the  Treasurer's  absence  or  inability 
to  act. 

Sec.  7.  The  Secretary  and  Treasurer  need  not  be  mem- 
bers of  the   Board. 


116  BY-LA\VS. 

CHAPTER    IV.     . 

Duties  of  the  Officers  and  Employees. 

Section  1.  The  respective  officers  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees shall  exercise  the  usual  functions  of  such  officers 
together  with  such  powers  and  duties  as  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees may,  from  time  to  time,  designate  or  assign  to  them. 

Sec.  2.  The  President,  and  in  the  President's  absence 
or  inability  to  act,  the  Vice-President,  shall  preside  over  the 
meetings  of  the  Board,  and  may  call  meetings  of  the  Board 
in  accordance  with  these   By-Laws. 

Sec.  3. 

(a)  The  Secretary  shall  notify  the  Trustees  of  all  meet- 
ings of  the  Board,  in  accordance  with  these  By-Laws,  and 
keep  a  full  and  fair  record  of  its  proceedings. 

(b)  He  may  employ  an  assistant,  subject  to  the  con- 
firmation of  the  Board,  who  shall  assist  the  Secretary  at 
the  desk  and  perform  such  clerical  work  as  the  Board  or 
Secretary  may  designate. 

(c)  The  Secretary  when  so  requested  shall  give  notice 
of  committee  meetings,  and  if  desired  he  or  his  assistant  shall 
attend  such  meetings  and  keep  a  record  thereof. 

Sec.  4. 

(a)  The  Treasurer  shall  receive  and  disburse  the  funds 
of  the  Board  under  the  direction  of  the  Finance  Connnittee 
in  accordance  with  the  orders  of  the  Board,  taking  proper 
vouchers  therefor. 

(b)  He  shall  keep  a  clear  and  accurate  set  of  l)ooks, 
recording  the  details  of  the  business  transactions  of  the  Board, 
and  these  books  shall  always  be  open  to  the  inspection  of 
the  Trustees. 

(c)  He  shall  make  a  report  of  the  condition  of  the 
Treasury  at  each  regular  meeting  of  the  Board,  through  the 
Finance   Committee,  and   on   August   1st,   at   the  end  of  each 


BY-LAWS.  117 

fiscal  year,  he  shall  report  to  the  Board  a  full  account  of  its 
financial  operations  for  the  preceding  year,  with  a  statement 
of  the  financial  affairs  of  the   institution. 

(d)  The  Treasurer  shall  have  charge  of  the  cash  and 
securities  and  of  the  registers  of  the  property  of  the  trust. 

(e)  He  shall  pay  out  money  only  as  authorized  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  and  approved  on  behalf  of  the  Finance 
Committee  in  such  manner  as  may,  from  time  to  time,  be 
determined  by  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

(f)  The  Treasurer  shall  be  required  to  submit  to  the 
Finance  Committee,  at  a  time  to  be  fixed  by  them,  a  state- 
ment showing  the  probable  income  of  the  trust  for  the  follow- 
ing fiscal  year,  and  also  a  statement  of  available  funds. 

(g)  In  addition  to  a  statement  of  cash  balance  sub- 
mitted to  the  monthly  meetings  of  the  Finance  Committee, 
there  shall  be  prepared  each  month  a  complete  statement  in 
summary  form,  with  detail  and  schedules,  of  the  income  and 
expenditure  from  the  commencement  of  the  fiscal  year  of  the 
L'niversity  to  the  end  of  the  preceding  month.  This  state- 
ment shall  show  for  each  department  the  appropriation  made, 
the  amount  thereof  expended,  and  the  balance  remaining 
unexpended,  and  shall  give  also  the  corresponding  figures  for 
the  preceding  year. 

(h)     Similar  statement  shall  also  be  prepared  of  income. 

(i)  There  shall  also  be  submitted  a  general  financial 
statement  m  the  form  of  a  condensed  trial  balance  or  balance 
sheet. 

(j)  Statements  shall  l)e  prepared  in  the  accounting 
office  and  submitted  to  the  Auditor  for  verification  and  cer- 
tification before  being  presented  to  the  Board. 

Sec.  5. 

(a)  The  Board  may  employ  a  business  manager,  who 
shall  have  general  care  and  management  of  all  the  property 
of  the  trust,  under  the  direction  of  the  Finance  Committee 
and  the  limitations  of  these  By-Laws,  and  they  may  select 
the    Treasurer   as    such    business    manager. 


118  HV■I.A^VS. 

(b)  Contracts  for  the  construction  and  equipment  of 
buildings  ma}'  be  made  by  him  in  accordance  with  ortlers  of 
the  Board,  and  he  shall  have  supervision  of  the  erection  and 
permanent  equipment  of  the   same. 

(c)  A\  hen  completed  and  ready  kn-  occupancy,  buildings 
on  the  campus  shall  be  turned  oxer  to  the  L'niversity  Com- 
mittee  for  use. 

(d)  The  business  manager  shall  submit  to  the  T^inance 
Committee,  at  a  time  to  be  fixed  1)y  them,  an  estimate  in  such 
detail  as  possible,  showing  the  amount  needed  for  the  care 
and  preservation  of  the  property  under  his  direction,  and 
also  such  amoiuits  as  may  be  necessary  to  complete  any 
buildings  or  contracts  wliich  may  have  been  entered  into 
by   the   Board. 

Sec.  6.  The  Treasurer  or  business  manager  may  appoint 
the  subordinates  in  his  office,  but  the  Board  must  confirm 
the   appointments  of   the   same   and   fix   their   salaries. 

Sec.  7.  The  Board  may  require  of  the  Treasurer  a  bond 
for  his  faithful  performance  of  his  duty. 

Sec.  8.  The  Board  shall  a])i)oint  a  purchasing  agent, 
through  whom  purchases  of  sujij^lies  required  by  the  Uni- 
versity  shall   be   made   so   far   as  ])racticable. 

Sec.  9. 

(a)  The  Board  shall  ap]>oint  an  auditor,  whose  duty 
shall  be  to  audit  all  bills  before  ]xiymcnt.  as  well  as  to  audit 
all  accounts  and  com])arc  the  same  with  vouchers,  both 
receipts  and  disbursements,  also  to  certify  the  monthly  and 
annual  statements  of  accounts  submitted  to  the  Board  of 
Trustees  or  the  I'inance  Committee. 

(b)  The  auditor  shall  be  nominated  1)y  the  Finance 
Committee  and  shall  report  to  them  and  be  responsible  to 
them. 

Sec.  10. 

(a)  The  Board  shall  appoint  a  storekeeper,  who  shall 
be  nominated  by  and  be  responsible  to  the  business  manager. 


BY-LAWS.  119 

(bj      The   storekeeper's  duties  shall  be : 

1.  To  receive  all  goods  coming-  to  the  University  and 
to  distribute  the  same  to  the  different  departments  upon 
approved  requisitions,  taking  proper  receipt  therefor. 

2.  To  keep  a  suflicient  supply  of  standard  articles  ni 
stock  for  issuance  to  departments  as  required. 

3.  To  keep  proper  record  of  all  articles  kept  in  stock 
and  to  render  monthly  bills  tf:>  the  dejjartments  for  all  issues 
thereof. 

4.  To  certify  all  bills  for  supplies  received  in  the  Uni- 
versity as  being  received  in  the  proper  quantity  and  quality. 


CHAPTER   V.  f 

Committees.  « 

Section  1.     The  Hoard  may  determine  the  number  of  its-, 
committees  and  their  functions. 

Sec.  2.  The  members  of  the  different  committees  shall 
be  appointed  by  the  President  at  the  annual  meeting  and 
confirmed   by   the    Board. 

Sec.  3.  Until  further  determined  there  shall  be  six: 
Standing  Committees — the  Committees  respectively  on 
Finance,  on  the  University,  on  the  Museum,  on  the  Church, 
on   Rules  and  on  the   Lii)rary. 

Sec.  4. 

(a)  The  Committee  on  b'inance  shall  ha\e  general  charge 
and  control  of  the  property  belonging  to  the  trust,  but  the 
occupancy  and  use  of  the  buildings  used  for  UniversitA'  pur- 
poses. e.\ce])t  tlic  Dormitories,  belong  respectively  to  the 
Committees  on  L'nix  ersit}-,  Museum  and  Church,  and  those 
committees  are  responsible  for  the  care  and  use  of  the  furni- 
ture, equipment   and   contents  oi  those  buildings. 

(b)  The  Dormitories  are  in  charge  and  control  of  the 
I'inancc    Conuviittee. 


120  BY-LAWS. 

(c)  They  shall  carefully  watch  the  investments,  and  it 
shall  be  their  duty  to  check  over  the  securities  semi-annually 
and  make  report  to  the  Board  as  to  the  condition  in  which 
they  are  found. 

(d)  Should  any  marked  depreciation  occur  in  any  of 
the  securities  held  by  the  trust,  it  shall  be  their  duty  to  report 
the  same  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  proper  action. 

(e)  They  shall  see  that  a  system  of  safeguards  and 
vouchers  for  the  receipt  and  expenditure  of  money  is  main- 
tained and  shall  take  care  that  the  books  of  the  Treasurer 
are  properly  kept. 

(f)  At  the  regular  F'ebruary  meeting  of  the  Board  they 
shall  make  up  the  budget  for  the  coming  3'-ear  and  present 
the  same  to  the  Board  for  its  consideration. 

(g)  The  buildings  iindcr  process  of  construction  on 
June  1,  1903,  shall  be  in  charge  of  the  Finance  Committee 
until  completed  and  permanently  equipped,  when  they  shall 
be  turned  over  to  the  University  Committee  for  occupation. 

Sec.  5.  The  b'ni\'ersity  Committee,  under  the  limitations 
imposed  by  the  founders  and  the  Board,  shall  have  general 
oversight  of  the  mternal  administration  of  the  academic 
afYairs,  the  teaching  staff  and  their  compensation,  the  expense 
incurred  upon  the  campus,  the  academic  buildings  and  the 
athletic  fields,  and  the  relations  of  the  different  departments 
to  one  another  and  to  the  I'ioard. 

Sec.  6.  The  r^luscum  Committee  shall  have  general 
charge  of  the  .Museum. 

Sec.  7.  The  Church  Committee  shall  have  general  charge 
of  the  Church. 

Sec.  8.  The  Committee  on  Rules  shall  perfect  the  plan 
of  organization  of  the  University,  and  to  it  shall  be  referred 
all   propositions   for  changes   in  such  organization. 

Sec.  9.  The  Library  Committee  shall  ha\e  general  over- 
sight of  the  administration  of  the  University  Library. 


Bi'-LAWS.  121 

Sec.  10.  At  each  regular  meeting  of  the  Board  each 
committee  shall  make  a  report,  oral  or  written,  concerning 
its  department. 

Sec.  11.  Until  otherwise  determined  by  the  Board,  three 
members  may  constitute  a  quorum  at  any  regularly  called 
meeting  of  the  Committees  on  Finance,  University,  Rules 
and  Library. 

CHAPTER    VI. 
Financial   Management. 
Section  1.     Appropriations. 

(a)  /Vt  the  close  of  each  calendar  year  the  heads  of  the 
Faculty  Departments  shall  be  required  to  prepare  estimates 
of  the  cost  of  their  respective  departments  for  the  following 
academic  year.  Such  estimates  shall  be  prepared  in  consider- 
able detail  and  be  submitted  to  the  President  of  the  Uni- 
versity for  approval.  These  estimates  shall  then  be  submitted 
to  the  University  Committee,  and  by  them  be  reported  to 
the  Board  of  Trustees  with  their  approval  or  otherwise,  as 
the  case  may  be. 

(b)  The  Finance  Committee  shall  prepare  and  submit 
to  the  Board  of  Trustees  annually  at  the  February  meeting 
of  the  Board  a  budget  shov/ing  the  probable  income  of  the 
trust,  and  the  amount  which  is  available  for  use  during  the 
ensuing  fiscal  year.  After  the  Board  of  Trustees  shall  have 
set  aside  the  amount  necessary  for  insurance,  depreciation 
and  reserve  fund,  the  balance  will  be  applicable  to  University 
purposes. 

(c)  Upon  this  statement  so  submitted  the  Board  of 
Trustees  shall  appropriate  such  sums  as  they  may  think  fit 
for  the  expenditures  for  the  year  of  the  different  department 
faculties  or  other  spending  departments,  which  appropriation 
shall  be  considered  as  final  and  not  to  be  varied  without  a 
•subsequent  resolution  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


122  BY-LAWS. 

Sec.  2.      l\C(iiusitions. 

(a)  All  Mi])])lics  or  cash  achances  rcH|uircd  by  any 
l-\iculty  dcpartmcnl  or  other  department  shall  be  based  upon 
a  requisition  signed  by  the  head  of  the  department.  In  the 
case  of  Faculty  departnients  they  shall,  after  proper  investi- 
gation, be  approved  by  tlie  President  of  the  University,  and 
in  the  case  of  other  departments  by  the  business  manager. 
They  shall  then  be  forwarded  by  the  business  manager  to 
the  purchasing  agent  for  execution,  except  in  the  case  of 
supplies  of  which  there  is  a  stock  on  hand,  when  the  order 
shall  be   forwarded  to  the  storekeeper. 

(h)  Requisitions  shall  bear  reference  to  and  not  exceed 
the  appropriation  from  which  they  are  payable,  and  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  those  approving  a  re(|uisition  to  satisfy  them- 
selves that  it  comes  within  that  appropriation. 

Sec.  3.     Payment  of  bill^. 

(a)  All  bills  must  be  rendered  in  duplicate. 

(b)  The  purchasing  agent  shall  certify  the  original  for 
the  correctness  of  price  and  conformity  with  order,  and  shall 
mark  the  same  with  a  reference  to  the  api)ropriation  to  which 
it.  relates.  He  shall  then  send  both  bills,  corrected,  if  neces- 
sary, to  the  storekeeper,  who  shall  certify  the  original  for 
the  receipt  of  the  goods,  weight  and  quality,  retaining  the 
duplicate  and  sending  the  original  to  the  head  of  the  depart- 
ment l)y  whom  the  requisition  was  made.  The  latter  shall 
certify  to  the  receipt  of  the  articles  and  return  the  bill  to 
the  business  manager's  office,  where  the  date  of  return  shall 
be  noted  in  the  register. 

(c)  Hills  for  stores  received  b}-  the  storekeeper  shall  be 
rcturnecl  by  him  duly  ccrtit'ied  direct  to  the  business  manager. 

(d)  .After  bills  shall  have  been  approved  l)y  the  FVcsi- 
dent  of  the  I'niversity  in  the  case  of  items  for  Facult\-  depart- 
ments and  b}'  the  business  manager,  in  the  case  of  items  for 
stores  and  other  de])artments.  vouchers  therefor  ^hall  be  made 
out  in  the  business  manager's  office  and  be  submitted,  with 
the  original  Ijills  attached,  to  the  Auditor  for  appr(,val.     The 


RULES   OF   ORDER.  123 

vouchers,  together  with  the  original  bills,  shall  then  be  laid 
before  the  Finance  Committee  for  approval  and  countersigned 
by  two  members  thereof.  Such  approval  shall  be  authority 
to  the  Treasurer  to  sign  the  check  portion  of  the  voucher 
and  to  issue  the  same  in  payment  of  the  bills. 


CHAPTER  VII. 

Amendment    of    By-Laws. 

Section  1.  These  By-Laws  may  be  amended  at  any 
regular  meeting  by  eight  affirmative  votes,  notice  of  the  pro- 
posed amendment  having  been  given  in  writing  at  a  preceding 
meeting. 

RULES     OF     ORDER. 

The  following  Rules  of  Order  shall  be  observed  unless 
suspended  by  resolution  of  the  Board  or  by  common  consent. 
If  they  are  departed  from  without  objection  they  shall  be 
deemed  to  be  suspended  by  common  consent,  but  no  minute 
need  be  made  of  such  suspension. 

The  order  of  business  at  regular  meetings  of  the  Board 
shall  be  : 

I.  Reading  of  mmutes. 

II.  Reports  of  Standing  Committees  in  the  following 
order : 

1.  Cni\-ersity  Coniniillec.  including  report  of  Presi- 

dent of  the  University. 

2.  Library  Committee. 

3.  ]\Iuseuni  Committee. 

4.  Churcii  Committee. 

5.  Finance  Committee,  including  report  of  Treasurer. 

6.  Rules  Committee. 

III.  Special   Committees. 
lY.     I'nfinished   lousiness. 

\  .      -New  !)usiness.   including  communications. 


]24  KULES    OF   ORDER. 

The  method  of  conducing-  the  business  at  the  meetings 
of  the  Board  and  the  mutual  duties  of  the  presiding  officer 
and  the  members  of  the  Board,  shall  be  such  as  ordinarily 
prevail  in  bodies  of  this  character. 

In  the  determination  of  all  questions  of  parliamentary 
usage  the  decision  of  the  presiding  officer  shall  be  basea 
upon  Roberts'  Rules  of  Order,  and  shall  be  final  and  binding 
unless  an  appeal  be  taken  from  the  decision  of  the  chair. 

These  rules  may  be  suspended  at  any  meeting  by  unani- 
mous consent  of  the  Trustees  present,  and  may  be  amended 
at  any  regular  meeting  by  eight  aflfrmative  votes,  notice  of 
the  proposed  amendment  having  been  given  in  writing  at 
the  last  preceding  regular  meeting. 


PART  VII. 


GENERAL   RESOLUTIONS    OF   THE    BOARD   OF 
TRUSTEES 


127 


GENERAL  RESOLUTIONS. 
(These  Resolutions  are  Subject  to  Frequent  Changes.) 


Agents   of   Student    Publications   and    Organizations. 

Resolved.  That  all  agents  of  student  publications  and  stu- 
dent organizations  he  required  to  carry  and  present  papers 
signed  by  the  President  of  the  University,  identifying  such 
individuals  and  indicating  the  extent  of  their  authority. 

(Adopted  April  30,  1904.) 

Apparatus.  Responsibility  for  Protection  of. 

Resolved,  That  the  President  l^e  requested  to  notify  the 
head  of  each  department  that  he  will  be  held  responsible  for 
the  taking  of  all  necessary  measures  for  the  protection  of  the 
apparatus  and  other  propert}-  of  the  University  belonging  to 
his  department. 

(Adopted  January  25,  1907.) 

Appropriations  Include  Freight  and  Express  Charges. 

Resolved.  That  all  a])propriations  hereafter  made  for  sup- 
plies, equi]:)ment  and  materials  shall  be  deemed  to  include  all 
costs  incidental  thereto,  including  freight  and  express  charges, 
conuuissions  and  store  charges. 

(Adopted  January  31,   1908.) 

Articles   of   Organization   of   Faculty,   adoption   of. 

Resolved.  That  the  following  articles  of  organization  of 
the  Universit}'  Faculty  be  adopted:  [The  Articles  of  Organi- 
zation are  printed  at  page  89  and  following.] 

(Adopted   March  31,    1904.) 


128  GENERAL    KESOLUTIOXS. 

Announcements   of   Actions. 

Resolved,  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Board  be  authorized 
to  give  out  such  information  concerning  actions  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees,  not  relative  to  the  appointment  of  professors  or 
to  the  rtnanccs  of  the  University,  as  he  may  consider  desirable. 

(Adopted  June  29,  1906.) 

Appointments,  Promotions  and  Dismissals. 
Resolved,  That  the  following  resolution  presented  by  the 
Organization  Connnittee  relative  to  the  appointment,  promo- 
tion and  dismissal  of  professors  and  teachers  at  the  University 
be  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Trustees,  subject  to  amendment  or 
repeal  by  the  Board  : 

Whereas,  It  is  desirable  that  all  nominations  for 
appointments  and  promotions  of  members  of  the  teachiug 
stafif  at  the  University  and  all  recommendations  for  dis- 
missals be  made  by  or  through  the  President  of  the  Uni- 
versity, tlie  Board  of  Trustees  taking  no  initiative  in  these 
matters ;  and 

Whereas,  It  is  undesirable  that  either  the  power  of 
appointment  or  removal  should  \est  a])solutely  in  the 
hands  of  a  single  person. 

It  is  resolved  and  agreed  by  the  P)Oard  of  Trustees 
and  President  of  the  Leland  vStanford  Junior  University 
that  so  long  as  nominations  for  appointments  and  pro- 
motions of  members  of  the  teaching  staff  at  the  University 
are  made  by  or  through  the  President  of  the  University, 
no  dismissal  shall  be  made  without  the  concurrence  of  a 
majority  of  the  Trustees  present  at  a  meeting  of  the 
P)()ard  of  'i'rustees  at  which  a  cjuorum  shall  be  present; 

'j'hat  in  the  case  of  the  recommendation  of  the  re- 
moval of  a  member  of  the  teaching  staff  involving  any 
question  affecting  his  honor  or  moral  character,  he  shall 
be  furnished  by  the  President,  upon  application,  with  a 
specific  written  statement  of  all  charges  and  evidence 
reilecting  upon  his  honor  or  moral  character,  and  be  given 
an  opportunity  to  ])rcscnt  a  written  statement  of  his 
answer  and  of  any  evidence  he  may  wish  to  offer  in  de- 
fence, and  a  copy  of  all  such  charges  and  evidence,  to- 
gether with  any  answer  and  evidence  offereil  by  the 
accused,  and  the  recommendations  of  the  .\dvisor^•  Board, 


U  E  X  !•:  R  A  1  >    R  ESOLUT  rOXS.  1 29 

shall  l)e  aUached  to  the  recomendation  of  the  President 
of  the  University,  and  the  action  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
shall  be  based  solely  upon  the  recommendation  of  the 
President  of  the  University  and  the  record  attached  there- 
to, there  l)ein2:  no  further  hearing  l^efore  the  Board  of 
Trustees  or  any  member  thereof,  unless  the  Board  in  its 
discretion  shall  elect  to  receive  other  evidence  in  aid  ot 
its  decision,  and  any  such  recommendation  and  informa- 
tion affecting  the  honor  or  character  of  a  member  of  the 
teaching"  staff  shall  be  presented  to  and  acted  upon  by 
the  Board  of  Trustees  separately  from  anything  which 
may  invohe  his  competency  or  fitness  in  any  other  respect. 
The  members  of  the  Board  shall  not  in  any  case  or  in 
any  event  listen  to  or  receive  any  statement  concerning 
such  matter  exce])t  in  o])en  meeting. 

(Ado])ted   March   30,    1906.) 

Assembly  Hall  Rental. 

Resolved,  That  the  rental  of  $30  per  night  for  the  Assem- 
lil}'  Hall  be  waived  in  the  case  of  any  entertainment  recom- 
mended by  the  Committee  of  the  Faculty  on  Public  Enter- 
tainments, provided  there  is  no  profit  derived  from  the  same, 
but  that  in  case  the  entertainment  yields  a  profit  the  usual 
rental  shall  be  payable  only  to  the  extent  of  the  profit. 

(Adopted  September  28,   1906.) 

Association  of  American  Universities,  membership  in. 

Resolved,  Tliat  the  L'niversity  accept  membership  in  the 
.Association  of  American   Piii\ersities. 

(. Adopted  .\ugust  i,  1904.) 

Athletic  Fields,  Control  of. 

Resolved,  'iMiat  the  following  report  of  the  President  as 
to  the  control  of  the  Athletic  Clrounds,  dated  (.">ctolier  24th, 
1905,  be  a])i)ro\ed  and  ])laced  on  file: 

■■|n  \iev.'  of  the  fad  that  the  athletic  grtnmds  to  be  used 
by  the  students  for  athletic  pur])oses  are  to  be  placed  untler 
the  general  control  of  the   President  and   I'acult^-  of  the   I'ni- 


i:!i)  CKNHHAIi     KKSOM-TIOXS. 

\crsity  throui^li  the  propert  ct)niniitlccs.  I  beg'  leave  to  report 
that  the  followiiii;"  plan  of  control  has  l)cen  adopted,  having 
l)een  considered  and  a])])ro\cd  by  the  Advisory  l*>oard  of 
the  Faculty  : 

"It  is  understood  thai  llie  Athletic  Coniiuitlee  of  the 
b'aculty  has  control  over  the  acts  of  students  on  the  grounds 
in  so  far  as  the  good  name  of  the  L'niversity  is  cc^ncerned, 
their  jurisdiction  extending  to  all  matters  ])ertaining  to  the 
athletic  games. 

"The  direct  control  of  the  grounds  themselves  is  to  be 
in  the  hands  ai  a  joint  committee,  as  follows: 

"I.  l'\)r  the  control  of  the  grc^mids  used  by  the  ^-oiuig 
men,  there  shall  be  a  committee  of  se\en,  composed  as  fol- 
k)vvs :  2  members  of  the  Athletic  Conunittee,  the  Chairman 
and  one  mendjcr  a])pointed  by  the  President,  the  Chairman 
to  be  ex-officio  Chairman  of  this  general  committee;  2  alumni, 
one  I'esident  within  two  miles  of  the  grounds — these  two  to 
be  selected  by  the  executive  committee  of  the  Alumni;  3  stu- 
dents, one,  the  secretary  of  the  student-body,  to  be  ex-otficio 
a  mendier.  the  other  two  to  be  chosen  by  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  the  student-body.  All  these  to  remain  in  service 
during  the  university  year  and  until  their  successors  are 
chosen. 

"2.  i-\)r  the  control  of  the  grounds  devoted  to  the  young 
women,  there  shall  be  a  committee  of  five,  com])osed  as  fol- 
lows: I  member  of  the  Comiuittee  on  Athletics,  to  be  chosen 
b}'  the  ['resident  and  to  act  as  ex-oflficio  Chairman  of  the  joint 
committee;  i  mend)er  of  the  University  stafif,  a  woman,  to  l)e 
appointed  b}  the  Tresident ;  i  Alumna  member,  to  be  chosen 
by  the  executive  committee  of  the  girls'  athletic  association, 
this  member  to  reside  within  two  miles  of  the  grounds  in 
question;  the  other  two  to  be  the  president  and  secretary  of 
the  girls'  athletic  association.  I^ach  of  these,  as  in  the  other 
case,  to  remain  in  service  for  the  unixersity  year  and  until 
their  successors  are  chosen." 

(Adopted    .Xovember  24.   V)05.) 

Athletic  and  Other  Fields,  Improvement  of. 

l\e>ol\e<l,  \\\  the  l'.(.ard  of  Trusteo  of  the  Leland  Stan- 
ford Junior  I'niversit}  . 

TILXT  no  -<truclure  <r  other  impr(»\ement  shall  be  erected 
or  made  upon  any  i)orti(^n  of  the   i'alo  Alto  TCstate  set  aside 


GENERAL    RESOLUTIONS.  131 

or  used  for  athletic  or  other  University  purposes,  excepting 
upon  condition  that  such  structure  or  improvement  shall  im- 
mediately and  unconditionally  become  the  property  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University, 
and  shall  be  free  from  any  and  all  liens  or  encumbrances. 

THAT  no  such  structure  or  improvement  shall  be  made 
without  the  consent  and  approval  of  the  Treasurer  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  and  the  President  and  Faculty  of  the 
University  or  of  such  Faculty  Committee  as  may  have  charge 
of  such  matters. 

THAT  the  party  or  contractor  erecting"  or  making  any 
such  structure  or  improvement  shall  give  a  good  and  sufficient 
bond,  in  a  sum  not  exceeding  the  cost  of  the  structure  or 
improvement,  protecting  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  the  prop- 
erty of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University  against  all 
mechanics"  and  other  liens  growing  out  of,  or  incident  to,  the 
erection  or  making  of  such  structure  or  improvement,  pro- 
vided that  the  Treasurer  of  the  Board  may  waive  such  bond 
in  case  of  any  improvement  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars 
($500)   in  cost. 

T?1AT  the  Athletic  Fields  and  all  structures  and  improve- 
ments thereon  shall  be  regarded  as  parts  of  the  educational 
equipment  of  the  Uni\-ersity  and  sliall  be  under  the  super- 
visic>n  of  the  L'niversity  Committee. 

THAT  the  Treasurer  shall  give  and  post  due  legal  notice 
in  the  name  of  the  I 'card  of  Trustees  to  ])rotect  the  Trustees 
and  the  Universit}'  from  liability  for  mechanics',  laborers"  and 
other  liens  for,  on  account  of,  the  erection  of  an}'  structure 
or  the  making  of  any  im])r()\emcnt.  aforesaid. 

(Adopted  May   19.   1905.) 

Athletic  Field,  Location  of. 

Resolved,  That  the  location  of  the  students'  athletic  held, 
as  shown  upon  a  map  furnished  by  the  Student  Body  and  on 


132  (JKNKIxWI.     K'KSOl.rTlOXS. 

tilo    in    I  he    Treasurer's    office,    be    a])]M-(>ve(l,    sul)iect    to    such 
chanc;e  as  ma}'  liereafter  he  deenied  desirable. 

(Adopted    I'ebruarv  22,   V'O?;  amended  (  )etober  4.   1^)07.) 


Auditor  to  be  Furnished  With  Minutes. 

Resolved,  That  the  Auditor  of  the  L'niversity  Accounts 
1)6  furnished  by  the  Secretary  with  so  much  of  the  minutes  of 
the  meetinj^^s  of  the  Uoard  of  Trustees  as  will  throw  any  li.^ht 
upon  his  duties  as  such  Auditor. 

(Adopted   February  2=,,   1907.) 


Automobile  Road,  Location  of. 

Resolved,  That  the  automobile  road,  as  recommended  by 
the  special  committee  appointed  to  locate  an  automobile  road 
throuiih  the  campus,  be  a]jproved.  said  automobile  road  com- 
mencint;"  east  of  the  main  entrance  to  tlie  L'niversity  Grounds. 
extendinjT:  in  a  southerly  direction  throujjh  the  Arborettmi  and 
connecting'  with  the  road  passing;'  in  front  of  the  (iymnasium. 
and  along  the  east  end  of  the  outer  (juadrangle,  and  passing 
over  Lasuen  Street  to  the  County  Road  south  of  the  Univer- 
sit}'  l)uildings. 

(Ad<)])ted    .\'()\end)cr  2,   1906.) 


Automobiles,  Speed   Limit. 

Res()l\ed.  That  all  streets,  mads  and  avenues  excepting 
the  main  university  a\enue  and  the  alleys  and  lanes  be 
opened  to  automolMles  until  the  further  pleasure  of  the  T'loard. 
subject  ti)  the  usual  speed  limit  of  ten  miles  an  hour,  in  force 
in  thickl>-  settled  communities,  with  a  \ie\v  to  determining  the 
desirabilit\-.  or  otherwise,  of  permanently  remox  ing  the  restric- 
tions on  all  such  roads,  axenues  and  streets  excepting  the  main 
university  avenue  and  the  alleys  and  lanes. 

(.\dopted  October  30,  1908.) 


GENERAL    RESOLI^TIOXS.  133 

Bond  Premium,  Amortization  Fund. 

\\'hereas.  Tlic  amount  of  a  Sinking  I'^ind-  for  the  amor- 
tization of  tlie  premium  paid  for  a  15ond  is  readily  determin- 
able by  arithmetical  calculation. 

Resolved.  That  this  Board  of  Trustees  set  aside  from  the 
g-ross  annual  interest  on  bonds,  the  actual  proportion  of  such 
interest  as  is  required  to  amortize  the  premium.  Said  pro- 
I)ortion  to  be  separately  invested  as  a  Sinking  Fund  and  all 
income  therefrom  to  go  to  the  General  Fund. 

(Adopted  June  26,  1908.) 

By-Laws   and   Rules   of   Order,   Revision   of. 

Resolved,  'JMiat  the  by-laws  and  rules  of  order  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University 
be  amended  so  as  to  r^ad  as  follows  :  Notice  of  all  amend- 
ments of  said  b3'-law's  and  rules  of  order  having  been  given 
in  writing  at  the  last  preceding  regular  meeting:  [For  copy  of 
by-laws  see  page   103  and  following.] 

(Adopted  March  29,  1907.) 

Carnegie  Foundation,  Funds  of. 

Resolved,  That  the  'J'reasurer  be  recjuested  to  receive 
any  ])ensi()n  funds  forwarded  to  him  by  the  Carnegie  Founda- 
tion for  the  Advancement  of  Teaching,  and  to  disburse  the 
same  in  accordance  with  the  regulations  prescribed  by  that 
institution. 

(Adopted  Jtme  29,   1906.) 

Cooper  Medical  College.  Transfer  of. 

Resolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  Hoard  of  Trustees 
that  the  proposed  Iran.sfer  of  Cooper  Medical  College  prtiper- 
ties  be  accepted  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  upnu  the  terms  rec- 
ommended by  the  special  committee  and  approxcd  by  the 
Fresident  of  the  Universitv. 


134  GENERAL    RESOLUTIONS. 

Resolved,  ThaL  iho  Secretary  he  inslnieted  io  communi- 
cate the  foregoing-  action  to  the  trustees  of  the  Cooper  Medi- 
cal College,  and  that  the  President  of  this  15oard  be  instructed 
to  confer  with  tlie  attorneys  for  the  ]5oar<l  with  regard  to  such 
legal  steps  as  may  he  necessar}-  to  effect  the  i)roposed  transfer. 

(Adopted  January  31,  1908.) 

Cooper  Medical  College,  Transfer  of. 

Resolved,  That  the  President  of  the  Poard  of  Trustees  be 
authorized  and  directed  to  take  all  necessary  steps  toward  the 
acceptance  of,  and  to  accept  any  conveyances  of  Cooper  Med- 
ical College  properties  ;  to  execute  all  instruments  in  the  prem- 
ises on  behalf  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  to  carr}-  out  in 
detail  the  resolution  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  heretofore 
adopted  in  the  premises. 

(Adopted  June  26,  1908.) 

Cooper  Medical  College  Properties,  Acceptance  of. 

"Whereas,  Cooper  Medical  College,  a  eorj)oration  created 
and  organized  for  the  purpose  of  medical  education  under  the 
laws  of  the  State  of  California,  and  having  its  college  buildings 
in  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco  in  said  State,  is  about 
to  convey  and  transfer  to  the  Trustees  of  Leland  Stanford 
Junior  Uni\ersity  all  the  properties,  both  real  and  personal, 
wheresoever  the  same  may  be  situated,  now  ])elonging  to  said 
college,  to  the  end  that  all  the  said  ])ro])erties  may  be  used  by 
the  medical  department  of  said  university  for  ])urposes  of 
medical  education  ; 

"Now,  Therefore  be  it  Resolxed,  That  we,  as  such  Trus- 
tees, do  accept  all  and  singular  said  properties,  to  be  used  as 
aforesaid,  including  the  erection  and  maintenance  by  us  of  a 
library  building  and  library  in  said  City  and  County  of  San 
Francisco,  said  library  buiicHng  to  l)e  naniecl  the  Fevi  Cooper 
Lane  Library  of  Medicine  and  Surgery,  as  provided  for  by  the 
will  of  Pauline  C.  Lane  and  to  the  extent  of  the  properties  and 
their  proceeds  bequeathed  to  Cooper  Medical  College  by  said 


GENERAL    RESOLUTIONS.  135 

will  for  the  said  ])ur]josc',  aiul  that  all  the  diplomas  issued  by 
said  nni\ersity  to  tliose  who  ha\e  taken  the  course  in  said 
medical  department,  .-hall  bear  upon  their  lace  the  words 
■founded  as  Cooper  Medical  College  by  Le\i  Cooper  Lane'; 

".And  it  is  l-\irther  Resolved,  'i'hat  in  the  e\ent  any  of  the 
said  building^s,  together  with  the  lands  on  which  they  stand, 
are  sold  by  said  Trustees,  then  and  in  such  event  other  build- 
ings shall  be  erected  out  of  the  proceeds  of  such  sale  (said 
buildings  to  be  used  for  the  purpose  of  medical  education),  and 
on  their  walls  shall  be  placed  such  tablets  as  shall  in  appro- 
priate language  ])erpetuate  the  name  of  Levi  Cooper  Lane ; 

"And  it  is  Resolved,  That  said  Trustees  will  maintain  a 
]jerpetual  fund  for  the  maintenance  of  the  Lane  Medical  Lec- 
tures, not  to  exceed  $50,000,  out  of  moneys  which  may  be 
transferred  to  said  'JVustees  for  said  purpose." 

(Ado])ted  October  30.  1908.) 

Diplomas,  Execution  of. 

Resolved,  That  di])lomas  authorized  by  the  Board  of 
Trustees  be  signed  by  the  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
and  by  the  President  of  the  L'niversity,  and  that  the  seal  of 
the   I'niversity  be  attached  thereto. 

(Adopted  April  30,  1904;   amended  October  4,  1907.) 

Dormitories,  Room  Rent. 

Resolved,  That  the  rental  of  rooms  in  Encina  Hall  and 
Roble  Hall  should  be  $6  per  month  per  student,  beginning 
with  the  next  college  year. 

(Adopted  March  26.   1904.) 

Drunkenness,  a  Ground  for  Suspension. 

Resolved,  That  drunkenness  be  regarded  as  a  ground  for 
suspension  from  the  University,  and  that  the  President  and 
h'aculty  take  all  necessary  steps  to  enforce  this  rest~)lution. 

(Adopted  l^^ebruary  7,   1908.) 


ir,6  (iK.XEIJ.M.     IJHyOI-rTIOXS. 

Department  and  Guild  Fees. 

ResoKed.  That  i)ci)arliiiciit  foes  for  inalerirvl  used  should 
l>c  levied  and  colleeled  separatcl}-  froui  auy  oilier  fees  which 
may  be  chai\Q;cd  in  the  I'nix'orsity,  aud  l)e  uiadc  rei^ardless  of 
such  g^eneral  fees. 

That  they  sliould  include  iu  eacli  case  the  amount  esti- 
uiated  to  cover  (i)  uiaterial  used  aud  cousuuicd  ;  (2)  the  cost 
01  the  statt  necessary  to  procure  and  to  care  for  such  material ; 
(3)  wear  and  tear  of  apparatus  and  machinery,  includinp^  cost 
of  repair  autl  reidaceuieut  ;  (4)  the  cost  of  the  care  and  the 
wear  and  tear  of  Departuieut  Libraries  to  which  the  studeuts 
have  access. 

That  they  sliouhl  not  include  .general  e.\])euses  made  on 
behalf  of  J^epartments  in  ijcneral. 

That  the  estimates  slKudd  be  so  made  that  the  fees  will 
not  yield  a  prolit  iu  any  case,  exceiitinq-  iucideutall}-  to  avoid 
a  prol^ablc  loss. 

That  the  Ciuild  Hospital  fee  should  be  retained,  but  that 
the  responsibility  for  its  expenditure  should  continue  to  rest 
with  the  Students  Guild  as  at  present. 

(Adc^pted  I'ebruary  23.  ^rjoC).) 

Electric  Wiring. 

Resolved,  Thai  uuless  otherwise  e\])ressly  authorized  by 
the  lioard  no  temporary  wirini.;'  or  other  chau.qes  l)e  uiade  iu 
electric  wirins;'  at  the  I'uixersity  exceplin.^"  uuder  the  direction 
of  the  Treasurer. 

(Adopted  November  30.  I'-'Of);   amended  October  4,  1907.) 

Encina  Gymnasium  Lights. 

Resolved.  That  the  lighls  in  the  i'jicina  (i}innasiuni  bo 
cxtin"::uished  at  9  o'clock  I'.  M..  excepliuq-  on  Tluu'sdays. 
when   thev    UKn'   be   loft   on    until   ')\^o  o'clock    I'.    M..   unless 


GlOXlCRAL    EKSOLrTIOXS.  137 

other   arrangeniciits   should    be    made   between   the    President 
of  the  University  and  tlic  'iVeasurer. 
(Adopted  Xo\-cnii)er  30,  1904.) 

Encina  Hall  Lights,  Agreement  in  re. 

AA'hereas.  The  students  of  Encina  Hall  ha\'ing"  requested 
that  the  current  for  lights  be  kept  on  in  the  Hall  until  12 
o'clock  P.  M.,  promising  that  in  consideration  of  this  the  stu- 
dents in  the  Hall  would  see  that  every  unused  light  was 
promptly  turned  off,  that  all  waste  of  light  would  be  avoided 
and  the  cost  of  lighting  the  Plall  w'ould  not  1)e  increased ;  the 
.Manager  l)e  authorized  to  make  the  change  requested  in 
both  Halls  subject  to  abo^•e  conditions  and  to  place  a  meter  in 
each  Hall  to  ascertain  whether  the  cost  of  lighting  is  increased. 

(Adopted  January  30.  1904;   amended  October  4,  1907.) 

Entrance  Requirements  and  Courses  of  Study. 

Resolved,  by  the  15oard  of  Trustees,  that  the  President 
and  Faculty  consider  the  ad\'isability  of  adopting  a  system 
of  entrance  requirements  and  courses  of  study  in  which  a 
greater  portion  of  the  work  of  the  students  shall  be  specifically 
prescribed ;  and 

That,  to  assist  the  Trustees  and  I'aculty  in  the  considera- 
tion of  these  matters,  there  be  printed,  under  the  direction  of 
the  Registrar,  the  rcccnxls  of  entrance  and  University  credits 
of  all   graduates   from   June    1st,   19"03  to  June   1st.   1903.  also 

the  entrance  retjuirements  and  cour^^es  of  study  of  other  lead- 
ing colleges  and  universities,  together  with  such  schedules  and 
additional  matter  as  th.e  Truitees.  President  or  Faculty  may 
consider  of  substantial  assiitance  to  them. 

Resohed  that  this  resolution  be  adupled  and  con^muni- 
cated  to  the  1 'resident,  and  through  him  to  the  Academic 
Council. 

(.\doi)te(!  March  29,  1905.) 


138  GKXKTJAl-     RKSOHTIOXS. 

Faculty  Houses,  Terms  on  which  Built. 

Resolved,  Tliat  the  J''aculty  Ijc  iiotitkHJ  llial  the  Trustees 
will  build  houses  for  them,  at  the  rental  of  ten  per  cent,  per 
annum  on  the  cost  of  buildin.c:  and  fixtures,  and  that  they  be 
invited  to  submit  to  the  l'"inance  Coiumittee  for  approval  their 
applications  for  such  houses,  with  sketches  of  ])lans,  estimates 
of  cost;  the  details  to  be  supplied  if  desired  by  the  Architect 
of  the  Universit^^  The  location  of  such  buildings  to  be  fixed 
by  the  business  manager,  in  consultation  with  the  a])plicant, 
having  regard  to  the  limitations  imposed  l:)y  Mrs.  Stanford, 
to  the  roads,  drains,  etc..  now  constructed  or  planned,  and 
to  any  other  limitations  which  the  Trustees  may  impose. 
Such  applications  may  be  made  either  through  the  Business 
Office  or  the  President's  Office  for  transmission  to  the  Finance 
Committee. 

(Adopted  September  28.  1906;   amended  October  4.  V)07.) 

Fiscal  Year,  Commencement  of. 

Resohed.  That  the  commencement  of  the  fiscal  N'car  of 
the  L'niversity  be  changed  from  June  ist  to  August  ist  of 
each  year,  and  that  the  By-Laws  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
be  amended  accordingly. 

(Adopted  February  25,  1907.) 

Fraternity  and  Sorority  Houses,  Mingling  of. 

Resolved,  That  the  following  resohition  of  the  Committee 
on  Student  Afifairs  be  approved  : 

Resolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  Conunittee  on  Student 
Affairs  that  the  mingling  of  fraternity  and  sorority  houses  on 
the  Unive:sity  Campus  is  not  for  the  best  interests  of  the 
University  community,  and  that  it  is  desirable,  where  possible, 
in  the  assignment  of  building  sites  in  tlie  new  subdixisions, 
that  close  proximity  of  fraternity  and  sorority  houses  should 
be  avoided ;  and  that  it  is  especially  undesirable  that  any 
sorority  should  be  located  at  a  relatively  remote  point  in  the 


GENEKAL    EESOLUTIONS.  139 

campus    community    with     only     fraternities     for    immediate 
neighbors. 

(Adopted  April  26,  1907.) 

Guild  Fees,  Collection  of. 

Resolved,  That  the  President  of  the  University  be  au- 
thorized to  take  such  steps  as  he  may  consider  necessary  to 
provide  for  the  collection  on  account  of  the  Students'  Guild 
of  the  University,  of  such  reasonable  Guild  fees  and  assess- 
ments, not  exceeding  five  dollars  in  amount  for  each  student 
in  any  year,  as  may  be  voluntarily  levied  by  direct  vote  or 
authority  of  the  students. 

(Adopted  February  27,  1904.) 

Hygiene  and  Graphic  Art  Departments. 

Resolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  Board  that  neither 
the  Flygiene  Department  nor  the  Graphic  Art  Department  be 
developed  beyond  its  present  condition,  nor  that  the  appro- 
priation for  their  su]:)port  be  substantial!}'  increased,  but  that 
both  departments  be  maintained  substantially  as  at  present,  so 
long  as  the  I'oard  shall  so  desire  to  maintain  them. 

(Adopted  October  30,  1908.) 

Graphic  Art,  Degrees  in. 

Resolved,  That  degrees  in  Hygiene  be  not  granted,  but 
that  academic  degrees  in  Graphic  Art  be  granted  subject  to 
the  future  action  of  the  Faculty  and  Board  of  Trustees. 

(Adopted  October  30,  1908.) 

Insurance  of  Growing  Crops. 

Resolved,  That  the  Treasurer  and  ^Manager  be  authorized 
to  insure  all  standing  crops  belonging  to  the  University. 
(A(lo]-)ted  May  31,  1907.) 


140  fil-LXKHAL    KKSOH'TIONS. 

Insurance,  Employers'  Liability. 

Resolved,  That  the  Treasurer  be  directed  to  take  out 
employers'  lial)ilit\'  insurance  in  the  name  of  the  Trustees 
of  the  University  in  the  amount  of  $10,000,  covering  acci- 
dents to  all  employees. 

Adopted  Se])tember  28,  1906;    amended  October  4,  1907.) 

Jewel  Fund,  Origin  of. 

The  following"  communication  frt>m  Mrs.  Jane  L.  Stanford 
was  j)resented  and  read  : 

"February   13th,   1905. 

"The  Honorable  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 

Leland  Stanford  Junior  University: 

"As  I  am  al)out  to  take  a  short  sea  voyage  for  the  benefit 
of  mv  health  and  consec|Ucntly  will  not  be  present  with  you 
at  vour  next  meeting,  I  write  this  letter  to  inform  you  as  to 
mv  wishes  in  regard  to  special  arrangements  and  directions 
which  1  ga\e  you  some  time  ago  in  regard  io  the  disposal  of 
my  jewels,  and  the  use  of  my  home  at  Palo  Alto. 

"In  my  address  to  the  Hoard,  of  the  3rd  of  October.  1902. 
is  the  following  clause  relative  to  the  Palo  Alto  residence: 

"■.My  Palo  Alto  Residence  may  be  used  as  a  resi- 
dence for  the  President  of  the  University,  or  for  such 
other  purpose  as  the  ])Oard  of  Trustees  may  determine, 
after  mv  wishes  arc  carried  out  as  to  removing  certain 
articles  from  therein,  to  be  i)laced  in  the  Museum,  which 
are  mentioned  in  my  last  will  and  testament,  or  in  an 
address  heretofore  made  by  mc  to  the  Trustees.  The 
articles  not  mentioned  to  in-  disposed  of  as  they  deem 
best.' 

"I  now  think  it  best  to  use  this  home  for  educational 
pmposes  exclusively,  as  an  annex  or  department  in  connection 
with  the  University,  and  take  this  opportunity  to  express  the 
wish  that  it  be  put  to  some  such  ])urpose  or  use  after  my  de- 
jiarture  from  this  life.  it  is  too  exi)ensive  to  maintain  to  be 
used  as  a  roidence  for  the  President  of  the  University. 


GENERAL    RESOLUTIONS.  141 

''I  also  desire  to  assent  to  and  suggest  the  removal  and 
sale  or  other  disposition  of  the  articles  in  the  Residence  not 
to  be  placed  in  the  ^Museum  as  above  mentioned  or  indicated 
and  not  of  service  to  such  annex  or  department. 

"On  ]\Iay  31st,  1899,  1  granted,  assigned,  transferred  and 
conveyed  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  Uni- 
\-ersity,  subject  to  certain  terms  and  conditions  set  forth  in 
the  instrument  conveying  the  same,  all  m}'  jewels,  consisting 
of  diamonds,  rul)ies,  emeralds,  pearls  and  other  precious  stones, 
and  directed  that  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  said  jewels, 
or  so  much  thereof  as  might  be  necessary,  be  used  in  payment 
for  the  erection  and  completion  of  the  ^Memorial  Church,  then 
about  to  be  started.  « 

'"Excepting  such  as  were  sold  or  otherwise  disposed  of 
prior  to  the  first  day  of  June,  1903,  said  jewels  were  manually 
delivered  to  this  Board  and  are  now  located  in  the  vaults  of 
the  Union  Trust  Company  of  San  Francisco  under  the  control 
of  your  Treasurer. 

"I  was  subsequently  enabled  to  erect  the  Memorial 
Church  without  the  necessity  of  resorting  to  the  sale  of  these 
jewels. 

"In  y\Q\\  of  the  facts  and  of  my  interest  in  the  future 
development  of  the  University  Librar}',  I  now  request  the 
Trustees  to  establish  and  maintain  a  library  fund,  and  upon 
the  sale  of  said  jewels,  after  my  departure  from  this  life,  I 
desire  that  the  proceeds  therefrom  be  paid  into  said  fund  and 
be  jireserved  intact  and  invested  in  bonds  or  real  estate  as  a 
part  of  the  capital  of  the  endowment,  and  that  the  income 
therefrom  be  used  exclusive!}-  for  the  purchase  of  books  and 
other  publications. 

"I  desire  the  fund  be  known  and  designated  as  the 
jewel  fund. 

'T  have  created  and  selected  a  Library  Committee  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  under  the  su])ervision  of  which  all 
such  purchases  should  be  made. 

"JANE  L.  STANFORD." 


142  GI'^NKRAL    RESOLUTIONS. 

It  was  resolved  tliat  the  Board  assent  to  the  wishes  of 
]\Irs.  Stanford,  as  expressed  in  the  letter  just  read,  and  that 
the  Trustees  hereby  extend  to  Mrs.  Stanford  their  assurances 
that  her  wishes  will  be  carried  out. 

(Adopted  February  22,  1905.) 

Jewel  Fund,  Resolution  Creating. 

Resolved,  That  the  following-  resolution  be  adopted  and 
that  the  details  be  referred  to  the  Finance  Committee  for  ar- 
rangement : 

Whereas,  It  was  a  cherished  ])lan  of  ^Irs.  Jane  L.  Stan- 
ford that  all  jewels  left  by  her  should  be  sold  after  her  death, 
and  that  the  proceeds  (estimated  by  her  at  more  than  five 
hundred  tlK^usand  dollars)  should  be  invested  as  a  permanent 
fund,  of  which  the  income  should  be  used  exclusively  for  the 
purchase  of  books  for  the  Library  of  the  Leland  Stanford 
Junior  Uni\ersity  ; 

And.  W  hereas.  'i'he  pressing-  financial  needs  of  the  Uni- 
versity compelled  her  temporarily  to  forego  said  plan,  and  to 
sell  many  of  said  jewels  in  her  lifetime  in  order  to  raise  money 
to  maintain  ihe  I'nixersity  ; 

And,  Whereas,  F.y  communication  delixered  to  this  Hoard 
at  its  r.ijcting:.  held  Fel)ruary  22nd.  1003.  ]\Irs.  Stanford  de- 
clared : 

"In  \-icw  of  the  fads  and  (/f  ni}-  interest  in  the  future 
development  of  the  I'nixersity  Lil)rary,  T  now  recpicst 
the  Trustees  to  establish  and  maintain  a  lil)rary  fmul,  and 
upon  the  sale  of  said  jewels,  after  my  departure  Prom  this 
life,  I  desire  that  the  proticods  therefrom  be  i)aid  into 
such  fund  and  be  preserved  intact,  and  invested  in  bonds 
or  real  estate  as  a  part  of  the  capital  of  the  endowment, 
and  tliat  the  incon-ie  therefr<^m  be  used  exclusively  for  the 
purchase  of  bool-cs  and  other  publications.  I  desire  that 
the  fund  be  known  and  designated  as  the  Jewel  Fund. 
I  have  created  and  selected  a  Library  Committee  of  the 


OHXKRAL     KRSOH'TrOXS.  143 

Board  of  'J'rusleos,   iiiuler  superxision  of   which   all   such 
purchases  shouhl  l)e  made." 

To  which  communication  tlds  iJoard  replied  by  resolu- 
tion adopted  at  said  meetin.q'.  that  it  assented  to  the  wishes  of 
Mrs.  Stanford  as  expressed  in  said  communication,  and  assured 
her  that  they  would  be  carried  out : 

And,  Whereas,  some  of  the  jewels  left  by  Afrs.  Stanford 
have  been  sold  by  the  Trustees,  and  those  still  on  hand  will  be 
sold  as  rapidly  as  may  be  practicalile  without  serious  sacrifice, 
but  the  proceeds  of  all  jewels  left  by  her  will  probably  not 
exceed  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  (150,000) 
dollars,  owing  to  said  use  by  her  of  the  greater  part  of  them 
in  order  to  maintain  the  l'ni\-crsity  ; 

Xow,  Therefore,  In  order  to  carry  out  said  plan  of  ]\Irs. 
Stanford  and  to  establish  and  maintain  an  adequate  library 
fund,  and  to  perform  the  promise  made  by  this  Board  to  her, 
it  is— 

Resolved.  'J'hat  a  fund  of  fi\-e  hundred  thousand  (500.000) 
dollars,  to  be  known  and  designated  as  the  "Jewel  Fund,"  is 
hereby  created  and  established,  which  l*"und  shall  l)e  i)reserved 
intact,  and  shall  be  separately  in\ested  and  kept  invested  in 
bonds  or  real  estate  by  the  I'oard  of  Trustees,  and  the  income 
of  said  p'und  shall  be  used  exclusi\'e!y  in  the  purchase  of  books 
and  other  ])ublications  for  the  Li])rar}-  of  the  Leland  Stanford 
jimior  I'nivcrsit}'.  under  the  su])er\-isi(>n  and  direction  of  the 
Library  ( "onmiittee  of  this    lioard  of  Trustees. 

Resoh'ed  I'urther,  That  in  order  to  constitute  the  ])rinci- 
pal  of  said  jewel  I'^ind,  we  herel)}-  transfer  to  and  place  therein 

(a)  'J'wo  hundred  (200)  bon(l>  of  the  Northern  Railway 
Com])an\'  of  Califcniia,  of  the  i)ar  \alue  of  one  thousand 
(1.000)  dollars  each,  which  liaxe  been  received  by  this  Board 
ui  Trustees  under  and  l)y  \  irtue  of  the  decree  of  final  distribu- 
tion of  the  estate  of  jane  L.  Stanford,  deceased,  entered  in 
the  Superior  Court  of  Santa  Clara  County,  California,  said 
bonds  ])eing  charged  to  said  fund  at  their  aggregate  par  value 
of  two  hundred  thousand   ^200.000)  dollars. 


144  CKNKRAI.    Rl^SOLUTIdNS. 

(1))  The  Slim  of  twenty-six  thousand  one  hunch'ed  and 
twenty-two  and  77/100  (26,122.77)  dollars  in  cash,  which  has 
been  paid  to  this  hoard  of  Trustees  by  the  executors  of  the 
last  will  of  Jane  L.  Stanford,  deceased,  i)ursuant  to  said  decree 
of  final  distribution. 

(c)  Ail  sums  of  money  which  have  been  received  b}'  this 
r.oard  from  the  sales  of  jewels  which  were  _q^iven  by  Mrs. 
Stanford  in  lier  lifetime  to  this  Uoard,  or  to  Trustees  for  it, 
or  whicli  have  been  reccixed  by  this  lioard  from  the  executors 
of  her  last  will. 

(d)  All  sums  of  money  which  may  hereafter  be  received 
b}'  this  Hoard  from  the  sales  of  any  of  said  jewels  now  on 
hand. 

(e)  A  sum  of  money  out  of  the  General  Trust  Funds  of 
the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  I'niversity,  which  shall  be  sufificient 
to  make  up  and  constitute  said  ag'g're^c^ate  fund  of  five  hundred 
thousand  (500.000)  dollars,  after  charging  thereon  said  two 
hundred  bonds  taken  at  a  \aluation  of  two  hundred  thousand 
dollars,  said  sum  of  twenty-six  thousand  one  hundred  and 
twenty-two  and  77/100  dollars  in  cash,  and  said  various  sums 
now  received  and  to  be  received  from  sales  of  jewels. 

Resolved.  I'urther,  That  the  Treasurer  is  hereby  author- 
ized and  directed  to  forthwith  charge  to  said  I'und  upon  the 
books  of  the  Unixersity  all  said  bonds  and  cash  in  hand,  which 
are  specified  in  articles  a.  b  and  c,  of  the  foregoing  restjlution. 
and  to  charge  to  said  l-'uud  upon  said  books  all  sums  of  money 
which  may  be  hereafter  receixed  I)}'  this  Hoard  from  the  sale 
of  any  of  said  jewels  when  and  as  said  sums  shall  be  received  ; 
and  thereupfju.  when  all  said  jewels  shall  have  been  sold  and 
the  proceeds  of  sale  thereof  shall  ha\e  lieen  recei\ed  and  so 
charged,  to  transfer  to  said  Jewel  h'und  u])on  said  books,  out 
<jf  the  general  capital  funds  of  the  I'niversity  a  sum  of  money 
sufficient  to  increase  the  aggregate  of  all  said  amounts  then 
so  charged  to  said  Jewel  l-'und,  to  the  entire  -um  of  five  hun- 
dred thousand   (.^00.000)  dollars. 

(Adopted  May  20,  1908.) 


GENEEAL    EESOLUTIOXS.  145 

Lease  Form,  For  Ten  Year  Lot  Lease. 

Resolved,  That  the  general  ten-year  ground  lease  form 
designated  "Trustees"  Form.  No.  3,  Ground  Lease,"  be 
approved. 

(Adopted  August  29,  1903.) 

Lease  Forms, 

Resolved,  That  the  following  lease  forms  be  approved : 
Proposed  Trustees'  Form,  No.  2  (revised). 
Trustees"  Form,  No.  3  (revised). 
Trustees'  Form,  No.  5. 
(Adopted  October  30,  1908.) 

Leases  on  Palo  Alto  Farm  Authorized. 

Resolved,  That  the  President  and  Secretary  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  be  authorized  to  make  and  execute  in  the  name 
of,  and  on  behalf  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  such  leases  of  por- 
tions of  the  Palo  Alto  Farm  and  other  property  of  the  Univer- 
sity, at  Palo  Alto,  as  may  be  recommended  by  the  ^^lanager 
or  Acting  ^Manager,  the  term  not  to  exceed  five  years  in  length, 
and  the  leases  not  to  include  such  portions  of  the  Palo  Alto 
Estate  as  may  be  necessary  for  University  purposes,  and  to 
contain  reservations  of  rights  of  way  for  such  roads,  railroads, 
ditches  and  flimies  as  the  Board  of  Trustees  may  desire  to 
maintain,  lease  or  grant. 

(Adopted  June  26,  1008.) 

Leases  to  Fraternities  and  Student  Clubs. 

Resohcd.  That  the  following  clauses  presented  b}'  the 
attorneys  for  the  Board  be  adopted  for  insertion  in  future 
leases  of  lots  and  I)uil(lings  for  occupancy  1)}'  fraternities  and 
student  clubs  : 

"It  is  expressly  co\enanted.  agreed  and  understood  that  no 
malt,  spiritous  or  intoxicating  li([Uors  ot  \\hate\er  kind,  shall 


1-46  GFAKKAL    K'KSOLUTIONS. 

c\er  at  an\-  time  be  sold  or  used  on  the  demised  premises,  and 
upon  a  vit)lation  oi  tills  coNonant  this  lease  shall  terminate 
and  become  void." 

"It  is  hereby  si)ecially  co\enanted,  agreed  and  understood 
that  the  party  of  the  second  j^art  or  the  subtenants  of  the 
party  of  the  second  part  and  the  occupant  and  occupants  of  the 
premises  hereb}'  demised  shall  at  any  and  all  time  and  times 
during"  the  term  of  this  lease  l)e  subject  to  the  rules  of  dis- 
cipline and  all  other  laws  and  regulations  of  e\'ery  kind  that 
may  at  any  time  or  times  be  prescribed  or  adopted  by  the 
party  of  the  first  part  or  by  the  faculty  of  the  Leland  Stanford 
Junior   University  or  other  university  authorities." 

(Adopted  October  30.  1908.) 

Leaves  of  Absence,  During  Term  Time. 

Resolved.  That  leaves  of  absence  during  term  time,  espe- 
ciall}-  at  the  beginning"  and  end  of  the  term,  should  be  discour- 
aged. 

(Adopted  October  2S,  1907.) 

Leaves  of  Absence,  Half-Year  on  Half  Pay. 

Resolved.  That  the  Hoar;!  of  Trustees  grant  half-year,  that 
is.  single  semester  leaves,  on  lialf  i)ay.  when  reqtiested  by  the 
professors  and  recommended  by  the  President  of  the  Univer- 
sity and  the  I'niversity  Committee  of  the  Board  of  Trustees, 
under  the  following  circumstances:  Only  after  the  serving  of 
si.x  years  without  leave,  or  after  the  serving  of  three  years 
since  the  last  sabbatical  full  year's  leave,  and  then  onl}-  in  cases 
where  the  work  of  the  i)rofesyor  re(| nesting  leave  can  be  satis- 
factorily providecl  for  and  only  when  such  leaves  will  not  inter- 
fere with  the  taking"  of  the  sabbatical  full  year  to  which  another 
professor  in  the  same  dei>arlnuMit  nia}'  be  entitled  at  the  time 
such  half-year  ]ea\e  is  reciuested. 

(Adopted  January  10.  100S.) 


GENERAL    EESOLUTIONS.  147 

Leaves  of  Absence,  Sabbatical. 

Resolved,  That  in  the  opinion  of  this  Board  it  is  advan- 
tageous to  the  University  that  members  of  the  teaching  staff 
who  have  completed  six  years  of  continuous  work  in  the 
service  of  the  University  be  granted  sabbatical  leave  of 
absence  for  one  year  on  half  pay,  such  leave  to  be  granted 
by  the  Board  upon  application  by  such  members  of  the  teach- 
ing staff  through  the  President  of  the  University. 

(Adopted  October  4,  1907.) 

Leaves  of  Absence,  Short  and  Urgent. 

Resolved,  That  upon  proper  application  therefor,  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  University  is  empowered  to  grant  necessary  leaves 
of  absence  to  members  of  the  teaching  staff  not  exceeding  one 
week  in  duration,  and  that  such  leaves  of  absence  of  longer 
duration  be  granted  only  upon  application  to  the  Board  of 
Trustees  through  the  President  of  the  University;  provided, 
that  when  necessity,  urgency  or  public  interest  shall  require 
immediate  action,  the  President  of  the  University  may  grant 
leaves  of  absence  for  longer  periods  between  meetings  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  subject  to  the  approval  of  said  Board ;  all 
leaves  of  absence  granted  by  the  President  to  be  at  once  re- 
ported to  the  Trustees. 

(Adopted  October  25,  1907.) 

Leaves  of  Absence,  Without  Compensation. 

Resolved,  That  in  general,  leaves  of  absence  to  members 
of  the  teaching  staff'  for  long  periods,  or  while  engaged  in  out- 
side employment,  if  granted,  will  be  without  salary. 

(Adopted  October  25,  1907.) 

Library  Bookplate. 

Resolved,  That  an  engraving  of  the  seal  be  adopted  as  the 
chief  feature  of  the  bookplates  of  the  University  Library. 
(.\dopted  March  27,  1908.) 


14S  GEXERAL     RESOTJTTIOXS. 

Library  Loans. 

Resolved.  'I'hat  the  followinj;"  resoluliDii  prepared  by  the 
University  Lil)rarian,  l)e  ado])ted  : 

"The  Librarian  of  the  University  is  authorized  to  lend 
books  in  his  custody  to  other  libraries  fur  limited  periods,  pro- 
vided such  loans  can  be  made  without  inconvenience  to  the 
regular  users  of  the  University  Library.  He  may  also  request 
of  other  libraries  the  loan  of  books  which  are  essential  to 
special  work,  are  not  possessed  by  this  library,  and  are  not 
readily  obtainable  by  purchase.  Transportation  shall  in  all 
cases  be  at  the  expense  of  the  borrowinij  library." 

(Adopted  September  11,  1908.) 

Library  Rules. 

Resolved.  That  the  following  library  rules,  which  are  sub- 
stantially as  reconnnended  by  the  L'aculty  Library  Committee 
on  May  8th,  1908,  be  approved  : 

1.  The  Library  is  open  cluring  term  time  on  week  days 
from  8:00  a.  m.  to  10:00  j).  m.,  excc])!  on  Saturdays,  when  it 
is  closed  at  3:30  ]).  m.  During  the  short  vacations  the  hours 
are  from  8:00  a.  m.  to  4:00  p.  m.,  Saturdays  to  12:30  ]).  m..  and 
during  the  long  \-acation  from  'i  :00  a.  m.  to  4:00  p.  m..  Satur- 
days 9:00  a.  m.  to  12:00  m. 

2.  Books  may  be  drawn  by  all  officers  and  students  of  tlie 
University  and  by  all  others  having  special  permission.  A 
student  becomes  entitled  to  the  i)ri\ilcge  of  borrowing  books 
for  home  use  upon  presenting  his  or  her  registration  card  ami 
signing  the  recpiired  form  of  aii])lication. 

3.  All  jjooks  must  \)v  pro])cTly  charged  at  the  loan  desk 
before  being  taken  from  the  Library  .  Tlie  issuance  of  a  book 
for  use  in  the  reading  room  does  not  entitle  the  holder  thereof 
to  take  it  out  of  the  Library. 

4.  Students  may  borrow  for  h(»me  use  not  more  than 
three  books  at  a  time  and  thev  mav  l)(j  retained  for  two  weeks. 


GENERAL     RESOLUTIOXS.  149 

If  not  in  demand  they  may  be  renewed  by  application  at  the 
loan  desk  for  a  further  period  of  two  weeks.  Seniors  will  be 
allowed  not  more  than  five  books  at  one  time.  All  books  are 
subject  to  recall  at  the  discretion  of  the  Librarian. 

5.  Permanent  reference  works,  such  as  encyclopedias, 
dictionaries,  sets  of  periodicals,  etc.,  do  not  circulate.  Books 
reserved  for  special  classes  and  current  periodicals  circulate 
only  for  periods  when  the  Library  is  closed,  as  from  Saturday 
afternoon  until  Monday  morning". 

6.  A  fine  of  ten  cents  for  each  hour  overdue  is  incurred 
for  each  reserved  book  issued  for  a  closed  period  not  returned 
before  8:30  a.  m.  the  day  the  Library  is  next  opened.  A  fine 
of  five  cents  per  day  is  charged  on  other  books  not  returned 
when  due.  No  books  will  be  lent  to  any  student  charged  with 
unpaid  fines. 

Students  who  neglect  to  return  or  to  make  good  the  value 
of  books  lost,  when  called  upon  by  the  Librarian,  are  liable 
to  have  their  registration  cancelled. 

7.  The  stacks  are  open  to  officers  of  the  L'niversity  and 
to  graduate  students.  They  are  open  to  undergraduates  for  a 
limited  period,  through  stack  permits  issued  on  the  recom- 
mendation of  a  member  of  the  Academic  Council  or  by  per- 
mission of  the  Librarian. 

8.  liooks  which  must  be  used  by  many  students  within 
a  limited  time  are  termed  "hour  books."  Such  books  are  ob- 
tained by  signing  "hour  cards"  for  given  periods,  and  must  be 
returned  to  the  loan  desk  at  the  expiration  of  the  allotted 
hour. 

9.  Persons  who  desire  to  pursue  courses  of  study  or 
reading  without  becoming  members  of  the  University,  may 
obtain  the  privileges  of  the  [library,  including  the  privilege 
of  withdrawing  liooks.  Each  application  for  such  privileges 
shall  be  endorsed  by  two  members  of  the  Academic  Coimcil. 
and  shall  be  accom])anied  by  a  receipt  from  the  P)usiness  ^lan- 
ager  of  the  payment  of  an  annual  fee  of  five  dollars.      Such 


150  CiEXKKAL    EESOLUTIONS. 

privileges  shall  lapse  on  the  thirty-first  day  of  the  followinj;" 
July,  but  may  be  renewed  on  a])plication  to  the  Librarian 
after  payment  of  the  annual  fee. 

10.  Graduates  of  tlie  L"ni\ersity  desiring  to  withdraw 
books  shall  file  with  the  Librarian  certificates  of  graduation 
signed  by  the  Registrar,  and  shall  deposit  five  dollars  at  the 
Business  Office,  to  be  held  as  security  for  the  safe  return  of 
books  withdrawn.  The  deposit  shall  be  returned  when  the 
graduate  relincjuishes  this  privilege,  provided  there  be  no  un- 
paid charges  against  him. 

(Adopted  May  29,  1908.) 

Liquors,  Use  of  in  Student  Lodgings  Prohibited. 

Resolved,  That  the  .Academic  Council  be  requested  to  pro- 
hibit the  use  of  intoxicating  liquors  in  fraternity  chapter 
houses,  student  club  houses  and  other  student  lodgings. 

(Adopted  October  30,  1908.) 

Loaning  of  University  Property. 

Resolved,  That  University  property  be  not  loaned  without 
the  approval  of  the  President  of  the  l^niversity  and  the  Chair- 
man of  the  Finance  Committee. 

(Adopted  November  30,  1904.) 

Map  of  San  Juan  Subdivision  Extension. 

Resolved,  That  the  preliminary  survey  of  the  tract  sur- 
rounding the  reservoir  upon  the  campus  of  the  University, 
designated  upon  the  map  presented  by  Professor  Marx  as 
"Extension  of  San  Juan  Subdivision,"  be  approved  subject 
to  final  survey,  and  that  said  map  be  approved  and  placed 
on  file. 

(Adopted  June  28,  1907.) 


GENEKAL    RKSOLUTIOXS.  151 

Map  of  Lagunita  Tract,  Approval  of. 

Resohed,  That  the  blue  print  map  of  tlie  tract  lying  be- 
tween Lasuen  Street  and  Latjunita.  prepared  under  the  direc- 
tion of  Professor  Charles  D.  ]\Iarx,  l)e  approved  by  the  Board 
subject  to  final  survey. 

(Adopted  February  25.   1907.) 

Map  of  Cooksey  and  San  Juan  Subdivisions,  Approval  of. 

Resolved,  That  the  blue  print  map  presented  In'  PVofessor 
Charles  D.  ]\Iarx,  marked  "Plan  2."  and  showing  the  proposed 
subdivision  of  the  Cooksey  Tract,  of  the  San  Juan  Tract,  lying 
east  thereof,  and  south  of  the  county  road  and  of  the  extension 
of  the  Alvarado  Tract,  lying  north  of  the  county  road,  also 
showing  the  sul)division  of  the  Lagunita  Tract,  lying  between 
Lasuen  Street  and  Lagunita.  as  approved  by  the  Board  of 
Trustees  on  February  25,  1907.  be  approved. 

(Adopted  :\rarch  29,  1907.) 

Mechanician  Shop,  Creation  of. 

Resolved,  That  the  estaljlishment  of  a  shop  in  connection 
with  the  Department  of  Mechanical  Engineering  for  the  pro- 
duction and  maintenance  of  apparatus  and  mechanical  equip- 
ment be  approved. 

(Adopted  January  7,  1905.) 

Mechanician  Shop.  Accounts  of. 

Resolved,  That  a  separate  account  be  opened  with  the 
Mechanician  shop,  and  l^etween  the  shop  and  each  Depart- 
ment using  it.  that  repairs  to  equipment  l^e  chargeable  to 
student  fees,  and  new  equii)ment  be  chargeable  to  the  general 
funds  of  the  Cnixersity,  and  that  salaries  in  the  shop  be 
chargeable  to  the  general  funds,  suljject  to  reimbursement  on 
account  of  any  repairs  to  e(|uipment  cliargeable  to  student 
fees. 

(Adopted  .September  29,  1905.) 


lo2  GENERAL    RESOLUTIONS. 

Mechanician   Shop,  Scope  of  Work. 

Resolved,  'JMiai  llie  Mechanician  Shop  l)e  limited  to  doinj^ 
the  work  of  and  for  the  University. 
(Adopted  Xovcml^er  30.  1906.) 

Memorial  Church,  Services  Therein. 

Resolved,  That  in  accordance  \vilh  the  desire  of  ]\rrs. 
Stanford,  as  expressed  'to  the  P)Oard  of  Trustees  on  January 
7.  1905,  no  services  of  a  secular  nature  he  held  in  Memorial 
Church. 

(.\dopted  January  7,  1905.) 

Meetings  of  Board  of  Trustees,  Regular. 

Resolved,  That  unless  otherwise  determined  h}'  a  reso- 
lution of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  or  hy  a  special  call,  the  regular 
meetings  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  he  held  at  thirty  minutes 
past  one  o'ciock  P.  ]\I.  on  the  last  Friday  of  each  calendar 
month,  excepting  the  month  of  Jtih'.  at  the  office  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees,  at  rooms  numbered  510  to  312,  in  the  Union  Trust 
Building,  at  Number  14  ^Montgomery  Street,  in  the  City  and 
County  of  San  b'rancisco.  State  of  California. 

(Adopted  August  i,  1907.) 

Medical  Department. 

Resolved.  That  in  case  the  needs  of  the  ])roposed  Medical 
Department  o\er  and  al)o\e  its  own  separate  income  from 
medical  students  and  otlier  soin-ces  should  exceed  Twenty-five 
Thousand  Hollars  ])er  annum,  the  wants  of  other  now  existing 
•departments  of  e(|ual  im])ortance  shall  ha\-e  preference  over 
such  needs. 

(Adopte.l  January  31,  Vm.) 

Medical  College  Curriculum. 

Resolved.  That  the  Poard  approve,  subject  to  amendment, 
the  curriculum  of  the  medical  department  or  school  as  rccom- 


GENERAL    RESOLUTIONS.  1-^3 

mended  to  the  President  of  the  University  on  October  10,  1908, 
by  the  special  committee  appointed  by  the   President  of  the 
University  to  consider  the  matter. 
(Adopted  October  30,  1908.) 

Medical  Faculty   Organization. 

Resolved,  That  the  following-  plan  of  organization  of  the 
medical  faculty,  as  recommended  by  the  Advisory  Board  of 
the  Faculty  on  April  13,  1908,  be  adopted  subject  to  amend- 
ment : 

"The  ^Medical  Faculty  shall  consist  of  all  professors  and 
associate  professors  giving  instruction  in  si;bjects  included  in 
the  four  years'  medical  course  or  in  any  graduate  course  in 
Medicine,  either  in  San  Francisco  or  at  the  University,  and  all 
such  members  shall  have  votes  in  the  Medical  Faculty.  Those 
members  of  the  Medical  Faculty  who  give  practically  full  time 
to  instruction  and  who  receive  salaries  from  the  University  on 
that  basis,  and  the  Dean  or  executive  head  of  the  Medical 
Department  or  School  shall  be  members  of  the  Academic 
Council  of  the  University  under  same  conditions  and  on  the 
same  basis  as  is  provided  under  the  articles  of  organization  of 
the  faculty.  The  members  of  the  Medical  Faculty  who  are  at 
the  same  time  members  of  the  Academic  Council  shall  repre- 
sent the  Medical  Faculty  in  all  such  matters  as  afifect  the  rela- 
tions of  the  ^Medical  Department  or  School  to  the  University 
at  large,  as  requirements  for  admission,  requirements  for  grad- 
uation, standards  of  scholarship  to  be  maintained,  and  these 
recommendations  shall  he  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Aca- 
demic Council. 

'Tn  other  respects  the  Medical  Faculty  shall  bear  the  same 
relation  to  the  Trustees,  the  President  and  the  University 
Faculty  as  the  other  department  faculties.  The  management 
of  the  FTospital  and  of  all  administrative  and  executive  work  of 
the  Medical  Department  or  School  shall  be  in  the  hands  of  the 
Aledical  Faculty  and  of  such  committee  as  they  may  select, 
subject  to  the  control  of  the  Board  of  Trustees." 

( .\dopted  October  30,  1908.) 


io4  genp:kal  resolutions. 

Minutes  to  be  sent  to  Trustees. 

Resolved.  That  a  copy  of  the  minutes  of  each  meeting 
of  the  Board  be  furnished  to  every  Trustee  residins:^  in  Cali- 
fornia prior  to  the  followinp^  meeting".. 

(Adopted  August  29.  1903;   amended  October  4,  1907.) 

Oils  and  Chemicals,  Use  and  Storage  of. 

Resolved,  That  the  use  of  gasoline,  kerosene,  ether,  alco- 
hol and  other  dangerous  oils  and  chemicals  in  the  quadrangle 
buildings  be  prohibited,  except  imder  such  regulations,  to  be 
prescribed  by  the  Treasurer,  as  will  reduce  the  danger  from 
fire  or  explosion  to  the  lowest  possible  degree,  and  that  the 
Treasurer  provide  for  the  storage  of  such  oils  and  chemicals 
at  a  safe  distance  from  the  quadrangle  buildings. 

(Adopted  December  26,  1903;   amended  October  4,  1907.) 

President's  Reports. 

Resolved,  That  the  President  annually  present  a  report 
upon  the  condition  of  the  University  embod3Mng  reports  of 
the  Department  Faculties,  the  Librarian,  Curator  of  the  Mu- 
seum and  Registrar,  the  first  report  to  cover  the  year  ending 
July  31st,  1904. 

(Adopted  August  i,  1904.) 

Promises  to  Members  of  Faculty. 

Resolved,  That  all  promises  relative  to  salaries  or  promo- 
tions, made  to  either  members  of  the  teaching  force  or  to  can- 
didates for  positions,  to  be  binding,  must  at  \hv  time  be  re- 
ported to  and  approved  by  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

(Adopted  May  25,  1906:  amended  October  4.  1907.) 

Publications,  Division  of  into  Series. 

Resolved.  That  University  rublicatioiis  be  divided  into 
three  series : 

I.     The  Puhlicat  i()ii>  <>\  the  Registrar's  (  )t^ice; 


GENERAL    RESOLUTIONS.  loo 

2.  An  Academic  series  on  Scientific  and  other  subjects; 

3.  The  Trustees'  series,  consisting  of  official  publications 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees ;  and  that  numbers  be  assigned  to 
the  past  and  future  publications  in  each  series. 

(Adopted  August  25,  1905.) 

Publications,  Exchange  of  Trustees'  Series. 

Resolved,  That  all  of  the  publications  of  the  Trustees' 
Series  be  sent  to  all  those  upon  the  press  exchange  list  of  the 
President's  Office,  to  those  upon  the  President's  Office  mailing 
list,  to  those  upon  the  Library's  mailing  list  and  to  the  mem- 
l)ers  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

(Adopted  August  30,  1907.) 

Reconstruction,  Commission  of  Engineers. 

Resolved,  That  the  repair  and  reconstruction  of  the  build- 
ings on  the  campus,  made  necessary  by  the  injury  thereto  by 
the  recent  earthquake,  be  placed  in  the  hands  of  a  commission 
of  our  professors,  consisting  of  Prof.  Chas.  D.  ]Marx,  Chairman  ; 
Prof.  W.  F.  Durand  and  Prof.  C.  B.  Wing. 

And  that  such  Commission  have  all  the  powers  that  an 
ordinary  architect  has  in  such  matters  and  have  charge  of  the 
employment  of  and  power  to  employ  such  builders,  inspectors, 
workmen  and  others,  as  may  be  necessary  to  the  accomplish- 
ment of  such  repair  and  reconstruction.  For  all  material 
purchased  for  such  repair  and  reconstruction,  requisitions 
shall  be  made  by  said  Commission  to  the  business  office,  and 
orders  therefor  shall  be  issued  therefrom. 

And  that  the  Chairman  audit  the  bills  and  certify  the 
same  to  the  business  office  for  payment. 

The  said  Commission  shall  have  the  power  to  obtain 
such  advice  as  it  may  deem  necessary  in  carrying  out  its 
duties,  and  at  such  reasonable  cost  to  this  Board  as  may  be 
necessary  for  that  purpose. 

For  their  own  services  they  shall  be  paid,  during  vacation 
only,  for  such  time  as  they  de^'ote  to  said  work  at  the  propor- 


156  CKNKrvAI.    KKSOLUTIONS. 

tionale  rate  oi  their  monthly  salaries,  which  shall  be  in  addi- 
tion to  their  regular  compensation  as  professors.  During 
term  time,  it  their  duties  herein  provided  shall  be  found  to 
conflict  with  their  duties  as  professors,  then  the  Hoard  will 
aid  them  by  providing  assistants  to  the  extent  that  may  l)c 
necessar}-,  in  the  instruction  of  their  students. 

Said  Commission  shall  make  a  report  to  the  Trustees  of 
the  condition  of  affairs  from  time  to  time,  and  at  least  once  a 
month,  such  regular  re]~)orts  to  l)e  luade  a  few  days  before 
the  monthly  meeting  of  the  Doard,  so  that  the  lloard  will 
be  fully  advised  from  time  to  time  of  the  i)rogress  and  con- 
dition of  the  work. 

The  arrangements  provided  for  in  this  resolution  shall 
continue  in  force  as  long  as  all  parties  are  cntirel}'  satisfied 
therewith. 

(Adopted  June  29,  1906.) 

Reconstruction,   Funds  for. 

Resol\-e(l,  That  the  necessary  funds  for  the  reconstruction 
and  repair  of  the  Universit}^  buildings  damaged  by  the  earth- 
quake of  April  18,  1906,  be  taken  from  the  ])rincipal  of  the 
trust  funds,  so  far  as  there  is  not  available  income  for  that 
purpose,  and  that  each  year  there  be  restored  to  said  principal 
or  said  trust  funds  an  amount  equal  to  not  less  than  ten  per 
cent,  of  the  amount  so  taken. 

r\doi)tcd  June  2?>,  V)0()\   amended  October  4.  ]')07.) 

Registration   Fees,   Committee   on   Refunding   of. 

Resohed,  'i'hat  all  i)etitions  for  the  refund  of  registration 
fees  l)e  liereaftcr  referred  to  the  Registration  Conuuittee  of 
the  I'aculty,  and  that  in  doubtful  cases  the  Registration  Com- 
mittee act  upon  the  advice  of  a  member  of  the  Law  Depart- 
ment, .and  that  the  'J'reasurer  be  authorized  to  refund  registra- 
tion fees  hereafter  collected  upon  the  recommendation  of  tlic 
Registration  Committee. 

CAdoi)ted  August  i,  1906.) 


GENERAL    RESOLUTIONS.  157 

Registration  Fees,  Refund  of. 

Resolved.  That  the  Treasurer  and  Manager  be  authorized 
to  refund  an}-  fee  collected  upon  the  registration  of  any  student 
upon  the  subsequent  cancellation  of  such  registration  under 
the  rules  of  the  University. 

(Adopted  August  29,  1903.) 

Retirement  of  Members  of  Faculty. 

Resolved.  That  all  members  of  the  teaching  or  executive 
staff  of  the  Univ^ersity  shall  retire  from  active  service  upon 
the  close  of  the  academic  year  in  which  they  shall  become 
sixty-five  years  of  age.  unless  with  their  consent  they  be 
continued  in  active  service  by  the  formal  action  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees.  That  the  President  of  the  University  shall  annu- 
alh'  present  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  consideration  with 
the  salary  roll  for  the  following  academic  year  the  names  of 
all  members  of  the  teaching  or  executive  stafif  of  the  University 
who  shall  be  over  sixty-five  years  of  age  on  the  first  day  of 
the  following  academic  year,  with  his  recommendations  as 
to  the  retirement  or  retention  of  all  such  persons. 

(Adopted  November  2.  1906.) 

Residence  Sites  for  Professors. 

Resolved,  That  the  location  of  professors'  residences  be 
not  restricted,  and  that  the  Extension  of  the  San  Juan  Subdi- 
visic:)n,  known  as  the  ^^'ater  Tower  Reservation,  consisting,  as 
now  laid  out.  of  fourteen  lots,  be  reserved  for  faculty  resi- 
dences only. 

(Adopted  February  7,  1908.) 

Resolutions  Rescinded  by  By-Laws. 

Resolved.  That  any  resolution,  the  subject  matter  of  which 
is  covered  b\-  the  provisions  of  the  By-Laws  or  Articles  of 
Organization  of  the  Faculty  sul)sequcntl}'  adopted,  l)e  deemed 
rescinded  thereby. 

(Adopted  October  4,  1907.) 


1.->S  GENERAL    RKSOLrXIONS. 

Roads  on  Palo  Alto  Farm  Not  Dedicated. 

Whereas,  Xo  part  of  the  hinds  of  Stanford  Univcrsil}'  in 
the  County  of  Santa  Clara,  State  of  California,  has  ever  been 
dedicated  to  the  public  use,  by  user  or  otherwise,  as  a  road, 
street,  avenue,  alley,  lane  or  path; 

And,  W  liereas,  This  Board  has  the  right  at  any  and  all 
times  to  regulate  traffic  of  every  kind  on  said  lands  and  pre- 
scribe the  method  of  use  thereof,  and  has  always  maintained 
complete  dominion  over  the  same  ; 

And,  Whereas,  The  use  of  automobiles  and  motor  bicycles 
on  all  parts  of  the  I'nivcrsity  lands  was  prohibited  by  Mrs. 
Jane  L.  Stanford,  while  she  was  Surviving  Founder  and  pos- 
sessed of  all  powers  now  held  by  this  Board  : 

And.  Whereas,  This  Board  did  in  the  year  1906  locate  and 
improve  a  strip  of  land  for  the  use  of  automobiles,  Init  did  not 
dedicate  the  same  to  public  use,  said  strip  of  land  commencing 
east  of  the  main  entrance  to  the  University  Grounds,  extend- 
ing in  a  southerly  direction  through  the  Arboretum  and  in 
front  of  the  new  gymnasium  and  along  the  east  end  of  the 
outer  quadrangle  and  passing  over  thaj  certain  strip  of  land 
known  as  Lasuen  Street,  to  the  County  Road  south  of  the 
University  ; 

And,  Whereas,  Certain  persons  have  claimed  the  right  to 
run  automobiles  over  other  portions  of  said  lands  than  said 
strij)  of  land  so  set  aside  for  the  use  of  automobiles; 

Xow,  Therefore.  Be  It  Resolved,  That  the  ^Manager  for 
the  I'oard  of  Trustees  be  and  he  is  herein*  authorized  and  in- 
structed to  take  such  measures  as  he  may  think  proper  to  pre- 
vent the  travel  of  automobiles  and  motor  bicycles  over  all 
portions  of  the  University  lands  other  than  that  land  hereto- 
fore set  aside  for  the  use  of  automobiles  and  motor  bicycles. 

(Adopted  March  6,  1908.) 


GENERAL    RESOLUTIONS.  159 

Rules,  Adoption  of  by  Faculty. 

Resolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
that  the  Faculty  should  formulate  and  adopt,  subject  to  such 
action  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  as  the  Articles  of  Organiza- 
tion prescribe,  such  rules  governing  the  entrance  requirements, 
courses  of  study,  conditions  of  graduation,  conduct  of  stu- 
dents and  other  matters  affecting  the  work  and  discipline  of 
the  students  as  it  may  deem  desirable. 

(Adopted  October  4,  1907.) 

Salaries,  Automatic  Increase  of. 

Resolved,  That  unless  otherwise  determined  by  special 
arrangement  upon  appointment,  or  promotion,  or  by  special 
action,  all  Associate  and  Assistant  Professors  shall  receive 
a  regular  annual  increment  in  salary  of  $100  for  three 
successive  years,  beginning  at  the  expiration  of  the  academic 
year  1906-7,  in  the  cases  of  Associate  and  Assistant  Professors 
now  in  the  University,  whose  said  increment  for  the  current 
year  is  already  allowed,  and  beginning  at  the  expiration  of  the 
first  academic  year  in  the  cases  of  Associate  and  Assistant  Pro- 
fessors hereafter  appointed  or  promoted ;  provided  that  this 
rule  shall  not  operate  to  increase  any  such  salary  beyond  three 
thousand  dollars. 

(Adopted  October  25,  1907.) 

Salaries,  Equal  Allowance  for  Each  Semester. 

Whereas,  The  first  and  second  semesters  of  the  academic 
year  represent  academic  work  of  substantially  equal  value  and 
it  is  desirable  that  compensation  for  services  during  the  first 
and  second  semesters  shall  be  the  same ; 

It  is  Resolved,  That  in  all  academic  matters  such  as  sab- 
batical years,  sabl)atical  half-years,  appointments  to  take  effect 
at  the  commencement  of  the  second  semester,  or  for  a  semester, 
or  leave  of  absence  for  a  semester,  the  determination  of  the 
proportion  of  the  annual  compensation  to  be  paid  or  deducted 


160  GENERAL    RESOLUTIONS. 

as  the  case  may  l)c,  shall  be  based  upon  the  assunipliun  of 
equality  of  service  ami  compensation  in  each  semester,  so  that 
the  compensation  to  be  paid  or  deducted  for  the  second  se- 
mester shall  not  exceed  that  ])aid  or  deducted  iov  the  first  se- 
mester. 

(Adopted  -May  29,  1908.) 

Sales  and  Contracts,  Authorization  of. 

Resolved,  That  unless  special!}-  authorized  by  the  TJoard 
no  employee  of  the  Treasurer  or  Manager  shall  buy,  sell  or 
dispose  of  any  property,  or  enter  into  an}^  contract,  excepting 
for  the  protection  of  property  in  case  of  an  emergency,  without 
first  obtaining  the  a])proval  of  the  Treasurer  or  Manager,  as 
the  case  may  ])e. 

(Ado])ted  August  1,  1003;   amended  October  4,  1907.) 

Sinking  Funds,  Bond-Premium,  Insurance,  Depreciation. 

Resolved:  1st.  That  immediately  upon  the  determination 
by  this  r.oard  of  Trustees  of  the  amount  it  shall  recei\'e  as 
gfross  annual  income,  and  before  a])])roi)riations  shall  l)c  made 
therefrom,  it  shall  set  aside  annual)}'  sinking  funds  as  follows: 

.\.      l-'or  al)sor])tion  of  premiums  ])ai(I  for  securities. .$  20,000 

15.     Insurance   50.000 

C      h'or  de])reciation  of  im]:)ro\  ements 100,000 

Said  funds  to  be  segregated  from  all  other  fmids  and  to  be 
sei)aratel}'  inxested  and  all  income  to  go  to  the  general  fund: 
these  funds  to  be  used  onl}'  for  the  ])urposcs  for  which  res])ect- 
ively  set  aside. 

2nd.  Thai  the  balance  ol  income  after  deduction  of  al)o\'e 
sinking  fun(l>  >hall  be  a\aila])le  for  the  general  and  educational 
appropriations  for  the  year. 

3rfl.  That  the  (le])reciation  account  shall  date  from  June 
1st,  1903,  and  that  it  shall  be  charged  willi  reconstruction  ex- 
penses made  since  that  date. 


GENERAL    RESOLUTIONS.  161 

Resolved,  Further,  That  the  Board  set  aside  these  amounts 
under  the  terms  of  the  above  resolution  for  the  coming  fiscal 
year. 

(Adopted  ^larch  6,  1908;   amended  ^larch  27,  1908.) 

Societies,  Use  of  University  Buildings  by. 

Resolved,  That  the  recommendation  of  the  President  of  the 
University  that  authority  be  given  by  the  Board  of  Trustees- 
for  the  granting  of  permission  to  scientific  and  literary  socie- 
ties connected  with  the  University  to  use  the  University  build- 
ings when  necessary  for  the  holding  of  their  meetings,  be  ap- 
proved. 

(Adopted  March  6,  1908.) 

Stock  of  Corporations,  Voting  of. 

Resolved,  That  the  Treasurer  and  Manager  be  empowered 
to  have  all  of  the  corporate  stock  belonging  to  the  Trustees 
transferred  to  the  name  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  and  that  he 
be  empowered  to  vote  said  stock  at  all  meetings,  with  power 
of  substitution. 

(Adopted  September  26,  1903.) 

Storekeeper  and  Supply  Store. 

Resolved,  That  the  ^Manager  be  authorized  to  appoint  a 
storekeeper   and   maintain   a   supply   store   at   the   University. 
(Adopted  January  7,   1905.) 

Telephone  Switches. 

Resolved,  That  long  distance  switches  from  University 
telephones  on  other  than  University  business  be  not  charge- 
able against  the  University. 

(Adopted  September  11.  1908.) 


1»V_>  GENERAL    RESOU'TIONS. 

Tenure  of  Associate  and  Assistant  Professors. 

Resolved,  That  unless  otherwise  expressly  provided  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees  in  individual  cases,  all  appointments  of  as- 
sistant professors  shall  be  made  for  periods  of  three  years,  and 
all  appointments  of  associate  professors  shall  be  made  for  peri- 
ods of  five  years,  the  tenure  of  appointment  to  terminate  in 
each  case  at  the  expiration  of  the  period  of  appointment  unless 
formally  continued  for  an  additional  period  by  the  Board  of 
Trustees. 

That  the  tenure  of  service  shall  not  be  held  to  prevent 
the  resignation  of  an  assistant  or  an  associate  professor  or 
his  removal  for  inefificiency  or  other  cause. 

(Adopted  May  1').  1<J05:    amended  October  4.  1907.) 

Tuition  Fees,  Statement  of  Policy. 

Resolved.  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
that  as  soon  as  conditions  will  permit  tuition  fees  be  charged 
in  professional  and  engineering  courses. 

(Adopted  June  20,  190r);    amended  October  4.  VK)?.) 


Tuition  Fees,  in  Law  Department. 

Resolved,  That  the  following  resolution  governing  the 
charging  of  tuition  fees  in  the  Law  Department,  be  approved 
subject  to  amendment  or  appeal : 

Resolved.  That  during  and  after  the  academic  year  1908-09 
tuition  fees  be  charged  in  tire  r>aw  Department  as  follows: 

For  students  registering  for  thirteen  (13)  or  more  units 
in  Law  in  any  semester.  $2.^  i)er  semester. 

For  students  registering  for  less  than  thirteen  (13)  units 
in  Law  in  any  semester,  two  (2)  dollars  per  unit  per  semester. 

No  tuition  fee  to  be  charged  for  Law  I  (Elementary  Law), 
which  is  not  regarded  as  a  professional  course. 


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That  studeiiis   who  were  registered  in   Law  on  ^vlarch  6, 
1907,  shall  be  exempt  from  the  payment  of  such  tuition  tees. 
(Adopted  March  6.  1908.) 


Vina  Wine  Agency. 

Resolved,  That  the  proposed  contract  between  the  Board 
of  Trustees  and  the  \'ina  Wine  Agency  for  the  sale  of  the 
Vina  wines  and  brandies  be  approved,  subject  to  the  approval 
of  the  Manager,  and  that  the  same  be  executed  and  delivered 
by  the  President  and  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  when 
so  approved  by  him. 

(Adopted  October  30.  1908.) 


INDEX. 


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INDEX. 

PAGE 
[Page  numbers   in   brackets   refer  to  provisions   which   have   been   re- 
pealed or  modified.] 

Academic  Council,  composition  and  powers  of 100 

Addresses  of  Jane  L.  Stanford — 
Amending  trusts  : 

June  1,   1897 45,64 

May  31,  1899  (deed) 45,  66 

October  3.  1902 48.  72 

June  1,  1903 49,  81 

Not   amending   trusts  : 

February   11,   1897 45 

June   1,   1897   (letter) 45 

May  31,  1899 45 

Advisory  Board,  composition  and  powers  of 102" 

Agriculture,  study  of  in  all  its  branches  provided  for 55 

Amendment  of  Trusts : 

June  1.   1897 45.  64 

May  31.   1899 45.  66 

November    1,    1901 47,  70- 

October  3,  1902 48,  72' 

June   1.   1903 49.  81 

Amendments,   later  supercede   earlier 84 

Announcements  of  Actions   (resolution) 128 

Appointment    of    professors 57,  104,  128 

Appointment   of   President  of   University S? 

Appointments,  Promotions  and  Dismissals   (resolution) 128l 

Arts  and   Sciences,  courses  of  lectures  in 61 

Assembly   Hall   rental    ( resolution ) 129 

Association  and  co-operation,  rights  and  advantages  of 57 

Association  of  American  Universities,  membership  in    (resolution)  ....  129 

.\thletic  Fields.  Control  of   (resolution) 129 

Athletic  and  other  fields.   Improvement  of   (  resolution) 130 

Athletic   field.    Location    of    (resolution) 131 

Auditor  to  lie  furnished  witli   Minutes   (resolution) 132 

Automobile  Road.  Location   of   (resolution) 132 

Automobiles,    Speed    Limit    (resolution) 132 

Bequest  of   Leland   Stanford 42 

Boarding   houses   upon    campus 68,  75 

P>ond   Premium.   Amortization   Frtvl    (  resolution  ) 133 

Buildings  of  University 60,  64.  76 

(1<>7) 


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By-Laws,  authorized   57,  68,  72,  73,  113 

By-Laws  and  Rules  of  Order,  Revision  of  (resolution) 133 

Capital  Endowment,   to  remain  intact 54,  57 

Carnegie  Foundation,   Funds  of    (resolution) 133 

Cemetery  at  iMausoleum  closed 75 

Church,  erection   of 60,  73 

Committees  of  Board  of  Trustees [67] ,  73,  1 19 

Confirmation  of  founding  and  endowment 18,  44,  45.  81 

Conservatories,    provision    for 55 

Constitutional   Amendment 18 

Cooper  Medical  College,  Transfer  of  (resolution) 133 

Cooper  Medical  College,  Transfer  of  (resolution) 134 

Cooper  Medical  College  properties.  Acceptance  of   (resolution) 134 

Corporate  powers  and  privileges. 

Constitutional  Amendment  authori/:ing 18,  47 

Act  granting 19,  47 

Assumption  of  by  Board  of  Trustees 47,  70 

Consent   of   Surviving   Founder   tliercto 48,  70 

Decree  determining  tlie  terms,  validity  and  legal  effect  of  University 

trusts 33 

Decree,   supplementary 89 

Deeds  and  Conveyances  to  Trustees : 

By  Leland  Stanford  and  Jane  L.  Stanford, 

Founding  Grant,  November  14,  1885 39,  53 

Bequest  of  $2,500,000  by  Leland  Stanford 42 

By  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  : 

California  Street  Mansion,  February   1 1,  1897 43 

Contents  of  various  houses  of  Mrs.  Stanford.  Feb.  11,  1897 43 

Bonds  and  otiier  personal  property,  June  1,  1897 43 

San  Mateo  and  Santa  Clara  County  properties,  Jan.  27,  1899... 43 

Tehama  County  property,  January  27,  1899 43 

Real  and  personal  property  in  various  places,  AFay  31,  1899 43 

Tehama  County  property,  June  6,  1899 44 

Lassen  County  property.  June  6,   1899 44 

Bonds,  manual  delivery  in  New  York,  July  9,  1900 46 

Bonds,  manual  delivery  in  San  Francisco,  July  23,  1901 46 

California  Street  Man^ii  n   (  cDnlirmatory)   December  9,  1901.  ...44 
Real    property    in    vari<ius    places    (confirmatory)    December 

9.   1901    44 

Bonds,  stocks  and  ntlur  i)ro]K-rties   (conlirmatory)    December 

9,  1901    44 

Resignation  aufl  (irant,  June    1,   l''()3 49,81 


IXDEX  169 

PAGE 

Department  and  Guild  fees    (resolution) 136 

Department  Faculties,  composition  and  powers 108 

Diplomas,  Execution  of   (resolution) 135 

Dormitories,   Room   rent    (resolution) 135 

Drunkenness,  a  ground  for  suspension   (resolution) 135 

Educational  System  to  fit  graduate  for  some  useful  pursuit 57,  80,  81 

Electric  Wiring  (resolution) 136 

Elementary  school  upon  grounds 68,  74 

Election  of  Trustees — (see  Trustees). 
Election  of  Officers — (see  Officers). 

Encina  Gymnasium  Lights    (resolution) 136 

Encina  Hall  Lights,  Agreement  in  re  (resolution) 137 

Endowment  constitutes  a  single  trust  fund 52 

Entrance  Requirements  and  Courses  of  Study  (resolution) 137 

Faculty  Committees,  appointment  and   powers 104 

Faculty  Houses,  Terms  on  which  built  (resolution) 138 

Facult}',  Organization  of 58,  99 

Financial    management [67-8],  73,  121 

Fiscal  year.  Commencement  of  (resolution) 138 

Founders  7 

Founding  Grant,  Execution  of 139 

Terms  of 53 

Fraternity  and  Sorority  Houses,  Mingling  of  (resolution) 138 

General  resolutions    126  ff. 

Gifts  from  others  than  founders 18,  56,  68,  72,  73 

Graphic  Art,  Degrees  in   (resolution) 139 

Guild  fees,  Collection  of  (resolution) 139 

High  schools,  University  to  keep  in  touch  and  harmony  with 79 

Houses,  cost  of  for  officers    65,  69,  76 

Houses,  cost  of  for  student   clubs 65,  69,  76 

Houses,  cost  of  for  any  private  use 65,  68,  76 

-Hygiene  and  Graphic  Art  Departments   (resolution) 139 

Improvement  of  real  estate 73 

Inalienability  of  Palo  Alto  Farm 64,  73 

Income  only  to  be  expended 54,  57 

Insurance  of  growing  crops  (resolution) 139 

Insurance,   Employers'    Liability    (resolution ") 140 


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Jewel  Fund,  Origin  of    (resolution) 140-141-142 

Jewel  Fund,  Resolution  on  creating  (resolution) 142-143-144 

Kindergarten  on  grounds 68,  74 

Law,  courses  of  lectures  in 61 

Leaders  and  Educators,  production  of,  chief  object  of  University 80 

Lease  form  for  Ten-year  lot  lease  (resolution) 145 

Leases  for  boarding-house,  school  or  residence  for  benefit  of  any  sect 

prohibited    65 

Lease  forms    (resolution) 145 

Leases  on  Palo  Alto  Farm  authorized  (resolution) 145 

Leases  to  fraternities  and  student  clubs   (resolution) 145,  146 

Leaves  of  Absence,  during  term  time  (resolution) 146 

Leaves  of  Absence,  half-year  on  half  pay  (resolution) 146 

Leaves  of  Absence,  Sabbatical   (resolution) 147 

Leaves  of  Absence,  Short  and  Urgent  (resolution) 147 

Leaves  of  absence  without  compensation    (resolution) 147 

Legislation  : 

Enabling    act 13 

Constitutional   Amendment 18 

Act  conferring  corporate  powers 19 

Act  concerning  taxation  and  tuition  fees 20 

Act  providing  for  special  proceeding 21 

Act  providing  for  resignation  of  surviving  founder 27 

Section  2295,   Pol.   Code 29 

Lil)rarian,   appointment   and  powers 110 

Library  bookplate   (resolution) 147 

Library  building  and  library 76 

Library  loans  (resolution) 148 

Library  Rules  (resolution) 148 

Liquors,  Use  of  in  student  lodgings  prohibited   (  resolution ) 150 

Loaning  of   University  property    (resolution) 150 

I<o<lging  liouscs  upon  campus 68,  75 

Map  of  San  Juan  Subdivision  Extension   (resolution) 150 

Map  of  Lagunita  Tract,  Approval  of  (resolution) 151 

Map  of  Cooksey  and  San  Juan  Subdivisions,  Approval  of  (resolution) .  .151 

Mechanician  Shop,  Creation  of   (resolution  ) 151 

Mechanician   Shop,  Accounts  of   (resolution  ) 151 

.Meclianician  Shop,  Scope  of  work   (resolution  ) 152 

Mechanics,  courses  of  lectures  in 61 

Mcclianical    institutes,    provided    for .55 


INDEX  171 

PAGE 

Medical  College  Curriculum  (resolution) 152 

Medical   Department    (resolution) 152 

Medical  Faculty  Organization   (resolution) 153 

Medicine,  courses  of  lectures  in 61 

^Meetings  of  Board  of  Trustees,  regular  (resolution) 152 

^Meetings  of  Board  of  Trustees  : 

Regular    67,  12,  114 

Special 67,  114 

Memorial  Church,  Services  therein   (resolution) 152 

Minutes  to  be  sent  to  trustees   (resolution) 154 

Minors,  Custody  of 63 

Museums,  provided  for 55 

Museum,  conditions  of  admission  to [68],  75 

Name  of  institution 55 

Name  in  which  property  may  be  received 18,  12,  IZ 

Name  in  which  Trustees  may  sue  and  defend 15 

Notice    of   meetings 72,  114 

Officers,  election  of 56,  67,  71.  115 

Officers,    duties    of [67],  71,  72,  IZ,  115,  116 

Oils  and  Chemicals,  Use  and  storage  of  (resolution) 154 

Original   research   encouraged 76 

Place  of  burial  of  Founders 60 

Physical  h«alth  of  students 76 

President  of  the  University,  powers  of 

58,  66,  [69,  70],  74,  99,  104,  128,  129,  154 

President's    Reports     ( resolution) 154 

Principal  to  forever  remain  intact 54,  57 

Promises  to  members  of  Facultj'   (resolution) 154 

Pu1)lications,  Division  of  into  Series  (resolution) 154 

Publications,  Exchange  of  Trustees'  Series   (resolution) 155 

Quorum  of  Trustees  aiul  number  of  votes  necessary  for  action 

[56,  67],  71.  IZ,  85,  115.  116 

Reconstruction,  Commission  of  Engineers    (resolution) 155 

Reconstruction,   Funds   for    (resolution) 156 

Registrar,   appointment   and   powers 110 

Registration  fee [  70] ,  75 

Registration  Fees,  Committee  on  Refunding  of  (resolution) 156 

Registration  fees,  refund  of   (resolution) 157 


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Religious    instruction S7,  77 

Removal    of    professors 58,  104,  128 

Removal  of  President 57 

Removal  of  trustee 59,  104 

Report  to  Governor 58,  1 14 

Residence  sites,   for  officers  and   employees 60 

Residence  sites  for  parents  and  guardians 60 

Residence  sites  for  professors    (resolution) 157 

Resignation  and  Grant  of  Jane  L.   Stanford 49,  81 

Resolutions  Rescinded  by  By-Laws   (resolution) 157 

Retirement  of  members  of  Faculty    (resolution) 157 

Roads  on  Palo  Alto  Farm  not  dedicated  (resolution) 158 

Rules,  Adoption  of  by  Faculty   (resolution) 159 

Rules  of  discipline 57,  75,  99,  101 

Rules   of   Order 123 

Salaries   of  teachers 57,  104,  128 

Salaries,  Automatic  increase  of  (resolution) 159 

Salaries,  equal  allowance  for  each  semester  (resolution) 159 

Sales  and  Contracts,  Authorization  of  (resolution) 160 

San  Francisco  Residence  site,  alienability 72i,  95,  96 

San  Francisco  Residence  site,  original  trust  provision [85,  86] 

Scholarships   provided    for 60 

Scholarship,    grants    founding 56 

Sectarian  instruction  prohibited 57,  77 

Sinking  Funds,  Bond-Premium,  Insurance,  depreciation   (resolution)  ..  160 

Spirit  of  equality  encouraged 80 

Societies,  Use  of  university  buildings  by  (resolution) 161 

Stock  of  corporations,  voting  of  (resolution) 161 

Storekeeper  and  supply  store    (resolution) 161 

Students,  certain  to  be  excluded 80 

Students  expected  to  be  of  service  to  public 81 

Summer    scliools     68,  74 

Taxatif)n,   exemption   of   certain   property    from 18,  20 

Telephone  switches    (resolution) 161 

Tenure  of  Associate  and  Assistant  professors  (resolution) 162 

Tuition  fees 18,  20,  60,  61,  75,  80,  162 

Tuition  fees,  statement  of  policy  (resolution) 162 

Tuition  fees,  in  law  department   (resolution) 162 


INDEX  173 

Trustees,  election  of  :  page 

By  ballot 59,  67 

At  annual  or  special  meeting 67 

Notice  of  vacancy  and  nomination 67 

Election  not  less  than  30  days  after  nomination  or  25   days 

after  notice    113 

Trustees,  number  of   67,  84,  113 

Trustees,  roll  of   7,  40,  51,  52 

Trustees,  appointment  or  election  of 7,  40 

Trustees,  death  or  resignation  of 8,  41 

Trustees,  succession  of 9 

Trustees,  former    8 

Trustees,  term  of 67,  85,  113 

Trustees,  term  commences  from  date  of  election  or  appointment 85 

Useful  knowledge,  advancement,  application  and  dissemination  of 80 

University,  its  nature,  purposes  and  scope 55,  57,  1(>,  79,  80,  81 

University,  its  name 55 

University  to  keep  open  avenue  from  lowest  to  highest  stations  in  life.  .  .81 

Vice-President  or  Acting  President  of  University 100 

Vina  Wine  Agency  (resolution) 163 

Women  students,  rights  of 58 

Women  students,  limitation  in  number 70 


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